pre-sunrise MORNING ROUTINE – a slow and productive winter morning routine

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…

March has such great readathons! I thought this year I would split the month evenly so I could make an effort to focus on both March Mystery Madness and Middle Grade March.     BOOKS MENTIONED The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle The Mystery of Mrs. Christie Collision of Lies Enola Holmes – The Case…

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…

I’m continuing the STEM theme from the last few weeks with 21 of the best STEM books for kids. There are a number of the typical picture books on this list and then some great non-fiction books as well. I’m also hoping to share some of our favorite (non-book) STEM related resources soon too, so…