After we gave Ani this cross-stitch set for Christmas, Ella was SUPER into the idea and spent some of her Christmas money on getting her own set-up. Here’s what she has: This set of 100 colors of embroidery floss This floss organizer box (under $4!) This cross stitch cloth A small embroidery hoop An embroidery needle This cross-stitch book (which…
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Back in September, my friend and blog photographer, Heather Mildenstein, gave me a PhoneSoap. And I was instantly in love. I’m not by nature a germaphobe (at all) but at some point you can only read so many articles about how your phone is dirtier than a toilet seat – and live through a global pandemic – before you think…
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More than ten years ago (in March of 2007, to be exact), I signed up for a Goodreads account. And I’ve been faithfully tracking my books there ever since. I track every book longer than a picture book that I read either on my own or aloud to my girls (we read such an incredible amount of picture books…
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Over the summer, I mentioned that our family had switched to a two week menu rotation. I come up with two weeks of complete dinner plans and then we rotate through them for eight weeks. This has made my life SO MUCH EASIER. I got off track during the holidays, and I remembered how stressful it is to make up…
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For the past three, I’ve put together a Mock Caldecott list and I’ve loved having so many of you participate in reading and picking your own winners, and then comparing them to the official Caldecott winners chosen by the American Library Association in late January. The 2021 Caldecott Winners will be named on January 25th (this year, the entire American…
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