Last week I joined Ruth Ayers’ Celebrate Link Up for the first time and I was so glad I did. Just knowing that I was participating made me look out for happy things over the course of the past super cold 7 days. The best example being #1. And yes, I did use my camera […]
Read more“Let nothing dim the light that shines from within.” -Maya Angelou
Read moreReading aloud to and with the girls is pretty much my favorite thing to do. For years, we all read together multiple times a day. When the girls were tiny, we’d pass hours working our way through big canvas bags of picture books that I collected at the library. As they grew, our read aloud […]
Read moreThis Tuesday, I am going to look at the Broke and Bookish Top 10 Tuesday through a middle grade lens. The topic is for the week is Top 10 2014 Releases I Meant To Read But Didn’t Get To. When I think of all the genres that I read, interestingly, middle grade is the one […]
Read moreAmanda at the beautiful The Habit of Being recently directed me to Rebecca Solnit’s piece ‘Diary’. I began reading the essay on the computer and quickly realized I needed to print it out so I could read slowly, mark passages, take notes and add exclamation points. As I read Diary, I felt like the child who hasn’t learned […]
Read moreMany of my favorite bloggers (hello to Katherine at Read, Write, Reflect, Kimberly at First in Maine and Colby at Sharpread) have participated in Ruth Ayers Celebrate This Week link up for awhile now. Each time I read one of their posts, I think that I really want to play along too and then I […]
Read more“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” -Thoreau
Read moreIt seems like it’s been a bit since I’ve posted about our latest picture book reads. Here are a few that we’ve enjoyed… Going Places by Peter and Paul Reynolds- A great reminder that there is no right way to be creative. Loula and the Sister Recipe by Anne Villeneuve- A little girls wishes for […]
Read moreI found Broke and the Bookish about a month ago and I have really enjoyed participating in their Bookish Tuesday link up. This week’s though was a tough one for me. The link up is Top Ten Most Anticipated Debut Novels of 2015. Frankly, I’m not all that in the know as far as books […]
Read moreThe internet is abuzz with talk of words. Or rather, One Little Word. A word that will direct us for the year. A word that will remind us to live with intention and purpose. I have chosen a word in the past. Last year, for example, my word was shine. Each year, I have spent […]
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