Almost two months ago now a beautiful six year old girl in our community died a tragically awful accidental death. I find it hard to stop thinking about it. I drive by the house where the accident happened on my way in to town. I see Kelly’s mom at pick up, her vacant eyes hidden behind […]
Read moreThe other day, Katherine came up to me with a piece of paper clenched in her hand. She proudly exclaimed, “Mom! I know how to spell Tuesday!! Look, look, look!” And in big, wobbly letters she had written, TWOSDAY. Now what do you do with that?
Read moreLast week, I was drawn in to a Facebook discussion about the value of iPads for small children. There were some comments made that drew me into a state of defensiveness that I didn’t realize I had about our iPad. I limit Caroline and Katherine’s screen time pretty drastically. We don’t own a Wii or […]
Read moreReading is cool because it causes things like this to happen. I recommended A Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton to my mom. She read it. And sent along the following quote from the acknowledgments that I had either forgotten or somehow never read. “I would also like to pay tribute here to authors who write […]
Read moreThis is a long awaited week in the KidLit world. The short lists for the Cybils have finally been announced. For months now, long, long lists of books have been in the hands of the first round panelists. They have worked tirelessly to narrow these sometimes unimaginably long lists (the fiction picture book category exceeded 200 […]
Read moreAs a school lover myself, the past few years have been rough for me. Caroline has had a really hard time getting in the groove at school. She has made great friends and learned a lot but she has not loved it. In fact, at times, she has straight out disliked it. This year, however, […]
Read moreThis hat looked much cuter on Caroline as she sat in bed reading on New Year’s Eve. I had envisioned all sorts of clever things to say to go along with the photo. I would write about a great year of reading, the books to read in the coming year and on and on. And […]
Read moreThere 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. […]
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