COZY WINTER FAVORITES – things I’m enjoying and are making this winter a cozy one

Today’s book list is all about birds! We have been studying birds as we read along with The Burgess Bird Book for Children so this is the perfect book list for this season. I’ve created a bird literature guide to go along with The Burgess Bird Book, those who are on my weekly newsletter list…

For the last month and a half I’ve been on a mission that I have dubbed: The Great Purge of 2014. When the new year dawned it was like something woke up inside me and I realized just how much stuff I have! How did I accumulate this? And, more importantly, why am I keeping it?…

We live in a broken and needy world. A world with so many problems that it is easy to feel overwhelmed when thinking about them. Orphans, human trafficking, poverty, hunger, abortion, and the list goes on. Some people are fortunate enough to have a passion for a particular cause at a young age, others, while…

Living with less has been an overall theme in my year so far. It started with me simplifying at the beginning of the year and has just snowballed since. Last week I finished re-reading Jen Hatmaker’s book Seven, if you you haven’t read this book yet, you absolutely need to. I first read it two years…

I enjoy keeping track of the publication date of the picture books we read and doing a round up of the best books from each year. Earlier in 2018 I wrote two lists: a part one and then part two of our favorite 2018 picture books thus far. Then, at the beginning of the year…