Category Archives: Carrie

Bath Books — Not Just for Bathtime

Wait! Don’t bypass this post! (I know I would have just a short while ago.) I’ve never cared much for bath books, to be quite honest, because I wasn’t sure a young child could differentiate between what books were allowed in the tub and which were not. I picked one up at the dollar store…

Insights on Romans

I love Charles Swindoll’s Great Lives series and have been reading through some of them over at Reading to Know. (Esther was my latest to complete.) Swindoll has the ability to point out the practical in scripture and for that reason, I very much appreciate him and his work! I was beyond delighted to discover…

Smithsonian Oceanic Collection

I’m well aware of the fact that I am sounding like a broken record around here, but my son really, really, really loves ocean animals and so we are on a massive world-wide hunt to find the best books on ocean animals that we possible can! Then, our goal is to read them at least…

It’s All Greek to Me

It’s All Greek to Me: From Homer to the Hippocratic Oath, How Ancient Greece Has Shaped Our World was everything I thought it would be and then a little bit more. Written by Charlotte Higgins, it has the feel of a professor in love with his or her subject about it. I was trying to…

Spymom

I saw information for the book Spymom: The True Story of a Soccer Mom Turned Private Eye and I knew I HAD to read it. The press release mentioned that author Val Agosta had dreamed of being like Nancy Drew when she was a little girl, creating her own children’s detective agency to solve childhood…

Peter Cottontail

This Easter season is just slipping away from me! I’ve been thinking that I really wanted to plan some fun activities for us to do every day to prepare us for the upcoming holiday and it’s like I’ve blinked and the holiday is gone! Gone, but not yet. I still have a few more days…

Bookish Board Games

I don’t know about you guys, but we like reading books around here. Furthermore, it’s a real treat to play games in our home (because I confess, mommy isn’t much of a game player!) But to combine the two activities? Well, to suggest such is to secure the enthusiasm of a certain little 3 1/2…

Books on Screen: Thomas & The Runaway Kite

We knew that Thomas and the Runaway Kite was headed to our mailbox and everyday we checked in hopeful anticipation. As luck would have it, mommy had a girl’s night out the day that Thomas finally arrived so my three and a half year old got to watch it the first time with Daddy. When…