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Here’s my first list of our favorite books form 2018! Soon I’ll share my favorite reads as well as our favorite picture books, but today it’s the chapter books. If you’ve read any of my chapter book lists in the past you’ll know that I have struggled with reading chapter books aloud in the past and while I…

Ladies, Let’s gather the courage to be nice to each other. Let’s remember that often timidity, snobbery or gossip, is actually a cloak for insecurity. Let’s try to be the first ones to smile, to say hello and introduce ourselves. Let’s be the ones to build others up. Let’s be the church, the hands and…

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…