Hello from Nebraska! We’re on a mini-vacation to see Magical Mama Tiffany and her family. We’ve had fabulous thunderstorms and much tea. I’m not sure what’s on the agenda for the two days we’ll be here other than more rain and more tea, but that sounds wonderful to me. So now, courtesy of me, Tiffany…
Kids Only: What’s Your Favorite Chapter Book?
I heard from the author of the Fuse 8 blog yesterday about why she had not included all of the children’s votes for the 100 favorite children’s book list. She wrote: Well, just to justify the tampering, had I allowed every child vote to count (and initially I did) you would have seen numbers 1-50…
100 Favorite Children’s Novels
The School Library Journal’s Fuse 8 blog conducted a survey recently of favorite children’s books and these are the top 100 (after being tampered with so that children’s votes were not always counted — see the edit note at the end). While I’m not a fan of the way the voting was done, I love…
A Quote for a Friday
“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice ” -Peggy O’Mara
A Little of Everything
First off, thanks for all your fabulous comments yesterday on my mothering post! Every one of them meant so much. 🙂 Today was a pretty fabulous day. It was filled with strawberry picking, playing with friends at the park, sitting in the shade on the lawn swing watching the kids play, gardening, talking, tree climbing,…
It’s Hard Work, This Mothering Business
I’ve been feeling rather raw lately. My “good mama” hat has felt knocked from my head a few too many times and I’ve been filled with self doubt. Several hundred times per day, three-year-old Alex tells me “Me MAD at you, Mama!”. Seven-year-old Jack goes back and forth between being sweetly crazy about me to…
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
Happy Monday! I hope you folks are having less rain and dreariness than we are, or that you’ve at least had lots of cookie baking and puddle stomping to make up for it. We have more rain coming so this week’s list may have some wet activities included! So let’s get on with it. Here’s…
How to Make a Rose Petal Crown
Today’s craft comes courtesy of Annalee, who created this lovely rose petal crown as a gift for a friend. She says that all you have to do is gather some fallen rose petals (or other flower petals) from the ground and then gather a handful of stiff, long grass (the type that’s going to seed…
It’s National Get Outdoors Day!
Happy Saturday! It’s now officially National Get Outdoors Day! Head here if you want some ideas of where to go (there’s sites all over with fun stuff planned) or what to do. We’re going to Devil’s Gulch in South Dakota with some friends. Supposedly, Jesse James jumped it in a famous getaway. I’m not sure…
Moose Kids Love Sprinklers Too!
Have you seen this adorable video of a mama moose and her twins playing in a family’s sprinkler? What fun! 🙂 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNy9jTeolUk]