the FIRST FEW DAYS with foster kids again – a look at how things really go as a foster family (VLOG)

This week we hosted our second Sole Hope shoe cutting party at my church. In a nutshell here is how it works: you get a bunch of people together to trace and cut out fabric for shoes, you ship it to Sole Hope and from there they get it to Uganda where they employ locals to…

March has such great readathons! I thought this year I would split the month evenly so I could make an effort to focus on both March Mystery Madness and Middle Grade March.     BOOKS MENTIONED The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle The Mystery of Mrs. Christie Collision of Lies Enola Holmes – The Case…

One of my biggest hobbies, okay, actually, my biggest hobby, is blogging. Because I don’t really know very many bloggers in my real face-to-face life and because I enjoy talking blogging I thought for the next while I would blog about blogging. It’s like writers who write about writing, though somehow weirder. Or maybe it’s…

Last year I really started getting into puzzling. Not to the point where I am watching puzzle channels on YouTube (in case you are wondering, yes, they do exist). But, I’ve realized that winter is a great season for doing puzzles, since it’s chilly outside I can sit inside with a cup of my homemade…