After 18 months of guiding my kids’ learning from home, last week they finally returned to in-person school! This is honestly a bittersweet milestone…
After 18 months of guiding my kids’ learning from home, last week they finally returned to in-person school! This is honestly a bittersweet milestone…
When my oldest child was a toddler, my husband and I moved to Hawaii to live with my grandparents. We helped my grandmother out…
I am a morning person. I love to be up before anyone else enjoying the morning sun (or the chilly dark in winter), getting…
We have had a very snowy winter here in Colorado. There are flurries of snowflakes blowing outside the window as I sit here writing…
My family didn’t really celebrate Halloween much when I was growing up. We would wear costumes to school and have a party there, but…
I love any book that is illustrated by Hiroe Nakata, but the Duck series by author Lynne Berry are some of my favorites. These…
There are so many wonderful children’s books about apples, apple farms, and autumn fun that it was hard to choose which ones to feature!…
The book Let’s Go Home by Cynthia Rylant is hard to categorize and a little difficult to explain. While the book is not a story in the traditional sense, it is a lovingly captured portrait of a warm, cheerful home and the multi-generational family who lives there. Rylant’s richly detailed descriptions are paired with equally…
I was first drawn to the book Little Rabbit Goes to School by the beautifully detailed illustrations. Author and illustrator Harry Horse creates cheerful,…
As you can see from the picture above, I am firmly in the school of thought that believes you can never have too many…