My mother met Ted in 1966. They were both married to other terrific people at the time. As couples, these four had wonderful fun together. Circumstances, though, brought them to different places. Time passed and their marriages ended. Ted remarried. More time passed and Ted’s second wife died. In January 2009, Ted called Mom. And finally, […]

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Lauren Child’s version of the Princess and the Pea is absolutely, positively to die for… A few weeks ago, one of my favorite on-line people, Mariah Bruhel of Playful Learning, wrote about this book. I commented that I was not familiar with it and couldn’t wait to go read it. Mariah responded that the Princess […]

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I have mentioned one of my favorite people/children’s authors here before- Meg Medina. If you didn’t check her out the last time I wrote about her, please check her out now. And then you’ll know why I had an author crush on Meg before she created an awesome summer reading list and you’ll be able […]

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Where we’ve been…. Lucky, lucky us…

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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 […]

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  I 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 […]

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Yeah!! 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 […]

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We 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 […]

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When 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 […]

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If 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 […]

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