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

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 have been feeling so creatively inspired lately and I thought this would be the perfect topic to pivot this channel a bit and turn it from an online income only channel to a Chantel-just-being-creative-channel. Thanks for watching!      

Middle grade books are admittedly some of my favorites to read. Both when I was in middle school and now as an adult. My only regret is that I hardly read any classics when I was in middle school. I have been remedying that problem as an adult and have read a lot of great…

Every year I like to make picture books of the best books published that year. I take my job very seriously and read a ton of picture books. Many of them do not make these lists. Some times it surprises me what actually gets published, there are some truly terrible picture books out there! But…