What Do You Want to Make Today?
I was so sad to hear that Anna Dewdney, author of the Llama, Llama series of books for preschoolers and young children, died earlier this month at age 50 from brain cancer. Her stories have taught so many children about patience, kindness and the power of a mother’s love, and she was a real advocate […]
Despite our best intentions sometimes work piles up, whether because we took a day or two off, deadlines ended up on top of each other or just because it’s been a crazy summer. I have faced down some giant to-do lists lately (and have another one coming up this week as I prep for the […]
Links in this post are affiliate links, but all opinions are my own. I think we’re going to have it pretty easy this school year when it comes to the transition to first grade. The girl is going to the same school she’s gone to for two years, should know almost all of her classmates, […]
We recently went on vacation to Florida, and I read a whole book in less than a week. It had been a long time since I’d been able — or taken the time — to read so much so quickly, and I found that I had missed reading and wanted to keep doing it. While […]
When my daughter was born, I had no friends. That sounds super dramatic, but it’s true. I’d been working from home for a couple of years by then and hadn’t stayed in touch with coworkers from any of my previous jobs in the way I would have liked. I was home alone all the time […]
School isn’t even over yet but we’re already a week into the Scholastic Summer Reading Program the girl is taking part in at school. And I’ve already resorted to making things up. I should say that my daughter is a reader. She reads a lot on her own, and we read with her a lot […]
I’ve been kind of in denial about how quickly the end of the school year is coming, but now that the last full week of school for the girl is upon us, it’s time to start thinking about an end-of-the-year teacher gift. This brown sugar foot scrub was something I’d been wanting to make myself […]