? a beginner’s PEN PAL GUIDE ? how to find a pen pal, what to include – everything you need to know!
I often get asked questions about my pen pals – how did I find them, what do I include, etc, so here’s a pen pal guide for you!
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A couple of years ago I would take time at the beginning of each month to look ahead and see what picture books were all coming out that month that we were looking forward to reading and then wrote a blog post about it. I thought it would be fun to do that again but…
Around here I am currently . . . Listening to . . . this podcast with Tsh Oxenreider and Susan Wise Bauer, two amazing writers. Tsh wrote Notes from a Blue Bike (loved!) and Susan Wise Bauer wrote A Well-Trained Mind which I started last week. Thinking about . . . thanks to the above podcast…
It’s been nearly two weeks since Jared was diagnosed with celiac disease and I thought I would share a little bit about what we’ve learned. First of all, the main offenders containing gluten are: wheat, barley and rye but they can hide in foods under other names like: starch, dextrose and glucose, maltodextrin, and malt…
We’ve been learning all about pirates for the last week in preparation for Talk Like a Pirate Day and of course I had to share a pirate book list! This list includes a bit of everything, picture books, chapter books, fiction and non-fiction. If you are interested in continuing to learn about pirates you can check…
One of my goals for this year is to do better with enjoying each season and being intentional with our time in the season. Because almost everything I do has to include books in some way, I thought making monthly book lists would be a good way to acknowledge each season. January is one of…
It’s time for another monthly book list! I can’t believe that October is almost here – we are officially close to the end of the year! I know that most people would lean towards a pumpkin themed list for October but I feel like those have been done so many times over I wanted to…