My sweet nieces and nephews in Georgia reviewed some books for me! Be sure to use these with your kids during the school year for book report ideas! The Flight of the Silver Turtle by John Fardell Zara and Ben are brother and sister and have been adopted by Professor Alexander Ampersand. They are friends with […]
My cute nieces and nephews out in California helped me go through my stack of books to review and wrote up “book reports” for me this past summer. I sure love those kiddos. Moms, this would be a fun guide to help your school aged children pick out a good chapter book to read throughout […]
Raw Food/Real World: 100 Recipes to Get the Glow by Matthew Kenney and Sarma Melngailis This is the best cookbook to enter my home in a long time and I buy a lot of cookbooks. I have been trying hard to make sure the whole family’s diet is more than half plant based. We aren’t […]
Hands down, one of my favorite things as a mother is watching my daughters’ imaginations blossom. When they get old enough that you find them in their room putting on a play, in the kitchen creating a world-class recipe or overhearing them telling a made-up story to their siblings, it is the best part of […]
The older I get the more my fascination and excitement for the mailbox disappears. There were many times in my life where I actually went as far as hiding my parents’ mailbox key so I could be the only one to get the mail. When we had an actual mailbox I fought to the death […]
It has been a few weeks since I have found a children’s book that I just love and this weekend I found FOUR! Could You? Would You? by Trudy White is a breath of fresh air, something new that will make you stop and notice things with your children. It will make you and your […]
We moved a couple weeks ago and we’re now in the process of hanging up pictures, re-arranging furniture for the last time, organizing closets and stuff like that. When I start a project sometimes I don’t know if it will take 15 minutes or a couple hours. Organizing things with two little ones running around sometimes […]
Why does my 3 1/2-year-old think she needs to read chapter books? It might be because for all of her cousin’s birthdays we buy them each a book, and since many of them are older we buy chapter books. It could be the fact that she really has been reading since she was brand new. […]
When we were on vacation a few weeks ago I picked up Sara Snow’s Fresh Living and read it in one day. It felt good to sit down and really dive into a book! I guess I will have to just go on another vacation if I ever want to finish a book again. I […]
Why I am glad I read this book? It gave me the justification and reasons to just chill out as a mother, for which I have to give myself a bit of props. I think I have come a long way but this book opened my eyes a bit more. The author urges you to […]
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