Whew! It feels like we’ve cartwheeled full on to the holiday season! We bought a new tree yesterday but it’s too big for our ceiling so we’re back to square one. . . On a happier note, there are some great book deals going on this weekend – I hope you’ll find something fun to read (and the time to…
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Every year since 2012, I’ve done a Christmas picture book list. Then, a few years ago, several people started asking if I would do a list of longer Christmas chapter books to read-aloud with their kids during December. Such a thought had never actually crossed my mind (because I am totally brilliant, obviously), but immediately I was all about this…
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I’m not a huge shopper and Black Friday is not my Super Bowl. My idea of a good Black Friday is never leaving the house (it’s basically my dream come true that most Black Friday shopping is now online) and spending very little time shopping. It’s super easy to feel overwhelmed by all the deals or feel a false urgency…
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Are you familiar with Annie’s Craft Kits? It’s a subscription box for crafts (they have a Creative Girls one, a Young Woodworkers ones, and adults ones for cardmaking, quilting, crocheting, and beading, and lots more). We started using them last spring when we were home all day every day, and they were LIFESAVERS (I wrote a whole post about it…
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You know by now that I absolutely LOVE a good jigsaw puzzle. It’s one of my favorite things to do the the girls (Tally especially loves doing them with me while the big girls are at school). Or when they’re all in bed, I love to relax with an audiobook and a little time working on a puzzle alone. But…
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