Last March I blogged about our then 3 six year olds reading their first chapter book, Nicholas – A Massachusetts Tale. Since then, they have continued to do lots and lots of reading, in the forms of shorter books, magazines, game directions, and what books their big sister has had in her gigantic collection for their age.   Since March though, our library trips have consisted… (READ MORE......) | 6 Comments

If you’ve been following along with us, you’ll know that this day is one we waited for. (And waited, and waited..).   If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you can read the posts down below this one, because I’m done talking about it. lol. (No offense).

Needless to say, there was a LOT of excitement about beginning our new official school year!  Getting… (READ MORE......) | 8 Comments

If ANYONE can believe it, we are not officially ‘Back To School’ yet. I can’t even believe it myself! Yes, we home school. Yes, we keep our own schedules and do as we please, when we please to do it. But, it would please us ALL, to be Back To School, by now!

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I think I’ve mentioned, oh, maybe a kazillion times, that all of our kids just love reading books.  (But it’s true!) Thank God too.  I mean, to love reading is just, helpful, to get through the school years enjoyably.  So because they love it so much, they are way above their grade level with that.  So I started… (READ MORE......) | 5 Comments

Tasha Tudor is an author introduced to us through author Fiesta….back in, um, August.  Yes, we have dropped the Author Fiesta ball….or fallen off the Author Fiesta wagon <just insert your preferred phrase here>.  When busy season hits with our businesses, there is really only so much we can keep up with.

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I’m happy to say, we’ve managed to somewhat keep up with our Author Fiesta journey. As I mentioned was up next, the month of July featured children’s author Mem Fox.

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The other day, among a few other errands I needed to run, I returned our humongous pile of Patricia Polacco storybooks to the library.  It’s humorous to note that the parking lot to the library, and where I usually park the van, is RIGHT next to an emergency exit only door, which is RIGHT next the entrance door to the Children’s Library, inside the main library.  Because it’s not a… (READ MORE......) | 3 Comments

I’m about to talk about children’s books, so I can guess right now that this will probably get long.

First of all, can I just tell you how much I have always loved books?? Like…really love books.  Picture books especially.  I love the smell of them, and the noise that thick plastic cover makes, or the slickness of… (READ MORE......) | 3 Comments