We’ve had a lot of discussions about money in our household lately. I’ve been sort of consistent about giving an allowance lately to my kids, and on top of that my 13-year-old daughter has recently started earning some of her own money babysitting and pet sitting. The way we handle and think about money is…
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The Book of (Holiday) Awesome
I reviewed Neil Pasricha’s The Book of Awesome when it came out a year and a half ago. It really cracked me up, and most of his musings were just, well — awesome! When I found out that there was a new book: The Book of (Holiday) Awesome: When the Christmas Lights All Work, Successfully…
The Ultimate Cake Mix Cookie Book, with Giveaway
My young teen baker and I have had SO much fun exploring and creating with The Ultimate Cake Mix Cookie Book: More Than 375 Delectable Cookie Recipes That Begin with a Box of Cake Mix by Camilla Saulsbury. This is a nice big book full of recipes in three sections: drop cookies, bar cookies, formed…
Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers: The Life of Marc Chagall in Verse
Marc Chagall, famed pioneer of the modernist art movement, was born a Russian Jew in a small Russian town called Vitebsk. He ended up changing the world of art, celebrated in New York, Paris and Berlin, well-known more than a century later. Writers Jane Yolen and J. Patrick Lewis have put together a gorgeous new…
V.Reader and 5 Minutes for Mom Christmas Giveaway
What parent doesn’t love the joy of sharing a book with his child? As a mom of three, I know that the time spent choosing, reading and talking about books with my preschooler, kindergartner and sixth grader is always valuable. I love that they each have interest in books that they indulge on their own,…
Dancing With Mrs. Dalloway
You may already know that A.A. Milne created Winnie-the-Pooh based on his son, the real life Christopher Robin, and his childhood stuffed friends, or that Harper Lee modeled Atticus Finch on her father, a lawyer who defended two black men in court. But did you know that Tom Sawyer’s adventures came straight from Mark Twain’s…
Wonderstruck
Brian Selznick broke all paradigms with The Invention of Hugo Cabret –a thick chunkster of a novel that is more than half pictures. A story for the older elementary reader (and up) that is filled with beautiful pictures that help tell the story? Unheard of. Wonderstruck follows this same pattern, and I loved it! I…
On Reading: My Kindle got Skinned!
This summer, we were able to have a nice visit with dear friends in Connecticut. Our kids grew up together. My friend’s youngest son was my “third child” and Kyle was her “fifth child,” because of the time that they each spent with us as we helped each other out as necessary; and since they’ve…
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