There are many blogs that I read over the course of the week and a handful that I read daily. Overall, this is a good situation. My only frustration comes from the fact that some of my favorite bloggers live outside the country. While I enjoy learning about cultures other than ours, I have discovered […]
Read moreI knew that many of our Christmas gifts this year would be big hits. After all, as Caroline mentioned in her wonderful poem yesterday, the girls received a pogo stick and a basketball hoop. What I wasn’t expecting was just how much fun we would all find one of the girl’s gifts, Apples to Apples. All […]
Read moreRob used to read The Night Before Christmas to the girls because my father read it to me. Last year, Caroline informed him that seeing as he didn’t read with as much expression as I did, that the job was being handed over to me. This year, she insisted on reading every other page herself. […]
Read moreRemember the You Tube video of the boy opening a book for Christmas? If you don’t, it was widely viewed over the Internet as he cried and carried on about getting a book for Christmas. While my girls didn’t respond with quite the same level of disgust, I did feel like books were often quickly […]
Read moreI have fond memories of Christmas TV shows and especially of being able to stay up late to watch them. In our house, Christmas TV does not seem to have quiet the same hold on the girls. In fact, Katherine is scared of the Abominable Snow Monster and Caroline gets sad every time that Frosty melts. […]
Read moreI am finally reading Katrina Kenison’s , The Gift of an Ordinary Day. Many people, whose opinions I value highly, have told me to read this wonderful piece of writing and I am so glad that now is when I have chosen to begin the book. Today I was talking with a group of […]
Read moreThis fall, Katherine has spent her mornings at her Montessori pre-school and her afternoons at our half day public school kindergarten. I never thought twice about scheduling her days this way. She has been going to Montessori for years and has always stayed there through lunch and in the past year and a half, for […]
Read moreToday was our annual cookie baking day. Our family goes to Rob’s parent’s house where we are joined by Rob’s sister’s family and good family friends. We are covered in flour and sugar all day as the kids alternate between baking and playing. It is a wonderful holiday tradition. Wonderful and tiring. We arrived at home […]
Read moreEvery time I sit down to write out the addresses on our holiday cards, I promise that the next year I will create labels. It would be so much easier. So much faster. But if I had created labels sooner, I wouldn’t feel the passage of time quite so strongly. For the first time, the […]
Read moreA Monster Calls by Patrick Ness is a must read. Kirkus Review writes of a Monster Calls, A nuanced tale that draws on elements of classic horror stories to delve into the terrifying terrain of loss. . . . Ness brilliantly captures Conor’s horrifying emotional ride as his mother’s inevitable death approaches. In an ideal […]
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