I first heard about Front Desk at my children’s lit book club last fall. Several of the members had read it and were all RAVING about it. Then in January it won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, so when this book was recommended as a contender for Tell Me What to Read? It took me all of 5 seconds…
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When I was pregnant with Ella, I remember multiple people commenting saying, “I can’t wait to see what parenting books you are reading and recommend.” And I laughed to myself because I wasn’t reading parenting books. I was reading a dang lot of young adult novels. In fact, I believe the only parenting book I read during the entire nine…
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I try to be somewhat minimalist in many areas of my life. Hair bows is not one of those areas of my life. I have so many hair bows for my four girls and my desire to pare down? Non-existent. (I wrote a post last fall about my favorite places to buy hair bows). Because I love bows, I get…
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At Christmas and Halloween and Easter (and a bunch of other holidays), we get out our seasonal collections of picture books and enjoy them for a few weeks. A few years ago, it occurred to me that it’d be equally fun to have a birthday book collection too, that came out the week or so before one of my girls’…
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This post is sponsored by Mixbook. Use the code EVERYDAYMOM for 45% off sitewide through 6/30/19 Mother’s Day is less than two weeks away and, surprise! I’ve been thinking about my mom. When I was growing up, I always felt like I was much more like my dad. Even when I was a little girl and he was a grown…
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