I began last week as the mother of a kindergartner and a third grader. And then I ended the week with a first and fourth grader. At this time of year, I find it necessary to ignore all the well meaning writing teachers who tell me not to use cliches. Where does the time go? […]

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Amanda Ellberry hates her 11th birthday the first  time around.  Her best friend, Stephanie leaves her party to go to Leo Fiztgerald’s party and stays there. Leo is Amanda’s ex-best friend and he and Amanda haven’t spoken in a year. Amanda is too tired to open her presents and she goes straight to bed. As she’s […]

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Introducing a Summer Series called Caroline’s Reviews. Our eight (almost nine!) year old, Caroline has been very interested in my blog for a long time. Tonight, I suggested that she could start writing book reviews for me. Wow. She sure jumped at the chance and did an awesome job too. If you are the commenting type, […]

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So if you are my age or younger or the parent of someone my age or younger or pretty much a whole lot of people, you will remember Reading Rainbow fondly. What an amazingly awesome show it was. And now it is an amazingly awesome app. Katherine and I downloaded it this morning and we […]

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is worth a thousand words. This night stand used to be covered with Pokemon cards, dirty socks and a Nintendo DS. Now look at it! Although it is starting to look like a hoarder lives in his room it is still a great sight to see. He has 6-7 books going at one time depending on […]

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There are so many cool things about this video that I don’t really know where to start… Perhaps a list. 1. Caroline called my attention to it. I love that she knows what I would love. 2. It is timely. Who doesn’t love a video about Lebron James right now. 3. Lebron James is reading. […]

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We had a busy weekend around here. A four soccer game kind of busy weekend. As I sat down to write a blog post, I thought I might take the easy route and post this great picture of Rob and Katherine with a quote about dads and reading. Instead, I found a super alarming statistic. […]

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I’m not sure how a puppy as cute as ours (see above if you think I’m exaggerating) could be driving us nuts but she is. Daisy will turn one next month so I am feeling all my “but she’s a puppy” excuses nearing their expiration date. She is still jumping, still chewing, still eating anything […]

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We’ve had a busy few days around here… First, Katherine danced in her ballet recital. Caroline has been in two dance classes and recitals and I really thought I disliked the whole dance thing. Turns out I dislike being the mom of a little girl who is dancing but doesn’t like it. What I love […]

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As I read this month’s House Beautiful, I will admit that my eye was initially drawn to the large, round dining table. I love the idea of a round dining table, welcoming and inviting both quiet conversation with those next to you and ‘all play’ conversations with the whole group. But then my eyes drifted […]

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