I’m pretty sure she has the biggest smile at the stadium! We had a beautifully unscheduled day and the Yankees were playing a 1pm game. A perfect combination. Caroline and Rob headed in to the city while Katherine and I stayed home, did some errands and relaxed. It was a win-win kind of day for […]
Read moreI find there are so many wonderful things I know about because I am an educator. Part of why I write this blog is to introduce all my readers to these finds. Because after all, if we are reading to and with children we are all educators. I am embarrassed to admit that I […]
Read moreYeah!! School is out for the summer!! And Caroline learned today that she will be having a fantastic teacher next year. And she has many friends in her class. And the kids that she doesn’t yet know in her class are known to be ‘good kids.’ Tomorrow we find out who Katherine’s teacher will be […]
Read moreWe had a fabulous evening on Saturday. Fun new friends, good pizza and fireflies. And an introduction to the greatest website I’ve seen in ages. If you don’t know about Wordle, go straight there now. But don’t forget to come back here. Wordle allows you to create beautiful pictures full of words. All you have […]
Read moreWhen the girls and I were brainstorming about how to celebrate Father’s Day, Katherine suggested we play mini golf. We have a great little course attached to a golf course down the street from us so it was the perfect idea. And pretty sweet too. Rob has been playing a lot of golf lately so […]
Read moreIf I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world would be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of […]
Read moreA good friend of mine is going to join me in reading our way through a summer reading list. Caroline and my friend’s daughter over heard our plans and immediately began begging to join us, wanting to create a mini summer book club all their own. The girl’s walked off to school talking about books […]
Read moreI have vivid memories of my summer reading lists as a kid. The only thing I might have loved more than a summer reading list was the list of school supplies that Mom and I would bring to Ann and Hope each fall but that would be up for the debate. Summer reading lists were […]
Read moreYesterday, Katherine had a playdate so Caroline and I had some time alone. This is an unusual dynamic so we rushed to do many of the things that are hard to do when a well loved but younger sister is around. Our first trip was to Bazaar Star Beadery, a wonderful independently owned beading store […]
Read moreI love it when life and literature intersect. Last night, I was reading the latest installment of the Mouse and Mole books, Mouse and Mole: Fine Feather Friends to the girls. Mouse and Mole set out to create a book about birds, searching for the birds and then writing tales and drawing pictures of the […]
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