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

This has been a good year for read alouds in our home. We’ve re-read a few of our favorites and found some new favorites! If you’ve been here for awhile you’ll probably already know that when I say “read aloud” 90% of the time I mean “audiobook”. For us that works best, we mostly like…

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…

I love taking time to notice the year a book is published and I am noticing such a great trend in picture books. 2019 was a good year for picture books. I’ll admit, we didn’t read as many published in 2019 books at the end of the year but there were so many great ones…

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…

Okay friends, let’s just dive right in to this new series: Living a Life of Less. I’m super excited about this and honestly, could hardly decide which category I wanted to begin with. I’ve chosen food but even that will probably include more than just this one post overtime. So much of this series was inspired…