My kids, like most I know, love to laugh. It’s always a lot of fun around here when we find a picture book that has them laughing out loud. Ephraim has the cutest little giggle which gets me and Raeca laughing, it’s a great bonding experience. 🙂 These are a few books that get us…
I have mentioned before that I’m not the greatest at reading novels aloud but I love to read so as a result we listen to a number of audiobooks. But even though I’m not that great at reading novels out loud I still held onto the belief that if we owned the book I needed…
I have developed a love for mid-grade novels in the last few years. Generally middle grade novels are geared towards ages 8-12. They are around 30,000-50,000 words and don’t have any profanity, graphic violence or sexuality. There are a ton of novels that fit into this category and today I wanted to highlight some that…
A few weeks ago I bought a couple of new composition notebooks and decided to personalize them a bit. Raeca had a couple of primary composition notebooks and wanted to join me so I thought we’d video our process and share it here with you! The primary composition notebooks are nice because they have lines…
This blog only started up seven months ago but I thought it would still be fun to share the most popular posts from the seven months of 2016. It doesn’t come as much of a surprise to me that this list is heavy on the book lists, eight out of ten of the most popular…
I have no idea on the exact numbers, but we definitely read a lot of good picture books in 2016. I’ve gone through the books we read in 2016 that were published in 2016 and came up with our top ten books from the year. Raeca says her favorites were Let Me Finish, The Snurtch…