my biggest struggle with the foster care system – FOSTER CARE UPDATE – foster care awareness month

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…

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…

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 recently came across a great line in a book I was reading, in the story the middle grade girl was looking for clubs to sign up, she bypassed a lot of them until she found this one she could get on board with:   “Introverts Utterly Anonymous, which promised no meetings or gatherings of…