Rune Factory 4

 Rune Factory 4

Rune Factory 4, much like Rune Factory 2 and Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny, Has two protagonists a boy and a girl. 
Once you have named and picked out your character, the character is shown on an air ship where comically the character fights some stowaways but is knocked off the airship. Because of this fall the character has amnesia.  Now you take on the duties of a Princess/Prince that was supposed to arrive in Selphia. 

With new improvements to the game its obvious this will be one of the best yet. 

* wearing pajamas and having slumber parties
* a new request system
* Improved Love element even embaressing situations.
*a dating period before marriage
*marriage canididates also wear pajamas
*animated cut-scenes for introductions to marriage candidates
*no grid based farming
*prince/princess system is used to build up the town and attract tourists.
*more then one save file and items and skills can be carried over to a new file
*teleport ability is easier to access
*when you wear items you can see them.

Characters:

Lest: boy choice

Frey: girl choice (you can change names)

Female Marriage Candidates

Margret
 Forte
Dolce

 Clorica
 Amber
Xiao Pai

Male Marriage Candidates

Vishnal
 Dylas

 Kiel
ARthur
Doug
Leon

Villagers

Volkanon
Jones
Nancy
Lin Fa
Ventuswill
Porcoline
 Pico
Illuminata
Blossom
Bado

Cameo Characters:

Raven
Barrett
Ethelbert

Now I have played this game...and if you are a Harvest Moon fan, or a Dungeon crawler fan, or even a bit of both. This game is an awesome mix of the two. You can farm, fight monsters and it has that well known Harvest Moon dating/marriage element.
 Grab it you won't regret it.

Cupid and Psyche

This book is a great way to start your kids off on the greek myths. The artwork inside is eye catching and lovely and the story is timeless.

Psyche is a mortal woman of extraordinary beauty because of this men and people flock to her parents home thinking her Aphrodite in human form. This of course angers the true goddess of beauty and she sends her son Cupid to avenge her.

Wanting her son to make innocent Psyche to fall in love with the worst monster imaginable, but when cupid arrived to do the deed he pricks himself and upon looking at psyche falls victim to his own arrow. Marrying her secretly so as to avoid his mother's wrath, cupid never reveals who he is to his sweet bride.

But Psyche going on bad advice from her conniving jealous sisters, tries to sneak a peek at cupid and inadverdantly burns him with wax. Cupid feeling betrayed leaves her and Psyche goes on to search for him.

Well I won't spoil the rest of the book you'll have to get it to find out the end!

Cupid and Psyche