my 2019 books

my 2019 books

One of my goals last year was to read at least two new books each month. And I’m pretty happy that I DID IT, even with an extra one to make it 25! Ok, I actually listened to most of them (Audible rocks!), but hey, sometimes you have to cling on to accomplishments like this…

teaching children to give (a podcast and our Christmas Eve tradition) and a guest post (giving free books) from my parents
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teaching children to give (a podcast and our Christmas Eve tradition) and a guest post (giving free books) from my parents

How’s that for a long title? Ha! But I wanted to take a minute to talk about my very favorite part of Christmas every single year: children-gift-exchange on Christmas Eve. Can you see how excited Claire was to give this gift to Lucy years ago? Ok sorry had to include a few more. Because it…

favorite things 2019

favorite things 2019

My friend Melissa asked me to share my “favorite things” post again this year (last year I was too crazy with the wedding, but click HERE to find the one from two years ago…I think it’s funny that most of those are still my favorite things). Ok, so here we go with a new list….

books lately

books lately

Ok I have really been holding firm to my goal to read at least two books each month in 2019 and I’m loving it. (My memorization goal, on the other hand, isn’t going quite so hot, but we don’t have to talk about that right now! ha!) I can’t quite keep up here writing about…

our latest book love

My New Years resolution this year was to read two books each month. I did great until April when all things went wild. But I’m back on track now and reading three books all at once kind of on accident. I read Bad Blood (pretty interesting documentation of Elizabeth Holmes and her Silicon Valley start-up-gone-bad)….

my new favorite fifteen-year-old

Claire turns FIFTEEN today. FIFTEEN! I’m really struggling with this little fact.  Apparently she’s not: Oh wait, maybe she’ll take this more seriously with me for a minute…  Nope. She’s just going to enjoy this thing like nobody’s business. …and keeps reminding me that she gets her driving permit in six months. Ok, I’ll be…

bookends in NYC (part 2)

bookends in NYC (part 2)

We start school TODAY here in the desert.  And I’m sure there will be lots to say about that, but for now I’m in denial, so let’s go ahead and continue with the adventure in NYC with my bookend children. Part 1 is HERE. This trip was a little tricky because we were constantly trying…

bookends in NYC (part 1)

bookends in NYC (part 1)

Word of warning…there are a lot of pictures in this post.   But we’re used to lots of pictures here on 71toes, right? A few years ago I had the opportunity to take my three middle girls to NYC (part 1 HERE, and part 2 HERE).  When we got back, raving about all we had seen…