are they leaving again? a pretty big FOSTER CARE UPDATE

As much as I love using my big DSLR camera I’m constantly impressed with the quality of pictures I can get just from my phone camera. And that camera has one major benefit: I have it with me wherever I go. One of my favorite things to photograph with my phone are silhouettes. I find…

In the last few months I’ve been realizing how much more Ephraim enjoys chapter books when they are funny. For that reason I’ve been trying to add more funny chapter books into our rotation and alternating them with the more serious ones. There are some writers that just have that knack for writing silly chapter…

Here are my picks for the Hey Readerathon that will be running October 12-18! You can join the Hey Readerathon here.    

I’ll be honest, Thanksgiving doesn’t get it’s due in our home. First of all, in Canada, Thanksgiving falls on the second Monday of October, personally I think it’s too early in the fall season for the celebration, plus my daughter’s birthday is on the 2nd of October so we are always thinking about that and…

This month marks ten years since Raeca had surgery for sagittal craniosynostosis and I wanted to do a little overview of our story.         I couldn’t include all the pictures I wanted into the video, so here are a few more:   four months old   six months old   eight months…

I was chatting to Raeca about books yesterday and asked her what kind of book list I should share today. (Some weeks I have tons of ideas and the next nothing comes to me.) She suggested I do a list of chapter books for grade three. While I have done a list of grade three…