brain inspiration
I wrote about “mom inspiration” a few posts ago (about this great “Mom Conference” my sister put on…if you still want to listen to those great talks click HERE to…
my favorite part from “The Horse and His Boy”
As I mentioned in the last post, the girls and I finished book three in the Narnia series last month. It wasn’t my very favorite so far, C.S. Lewis uses…
good books
I have read some really good books lately. This one, All the Light We Cannot See , was one of the most beautifully written I’ve ever read: The subject matter…
Things I want to remember about reading “The Magician’s Nephew” with Lucy:
We just finished this book: And I want to remember how it felt. How it felt to have her body curled up at my side. How she seemed compelled to…
gratitude for the “deeper magic”
Lucy was over-the-moon when her teacher announced that her very own mother got to be one of the chaperones for the third-grade field trip coming up: the high school production…
what I learned from “The Giver”
When I read The Giver as a teenager I was mesmerized. It made me think more than any other book I had read before. I still remember reading a big…
gems from books…and books ARE gems
Last night as we were settling in for bed Dave smiled at me and told me all my dreams were coming true: our kids are becoming enveloped snuggly into a…
Friday Q & A — favorite Christmas books
I’d love to hear more Christmas book suggestions if you have time to share. We try to read a Christmas book under the Christmas tree every night once we have…
new (old) favorite book
Last year Lucy’s speech therapist introduced her to a new app on her iPad. “The Monster at the End of this Book .” And from the first instant she was…