An extensive summer reading list for kids going into first grade—print out this list and be ready for your summer library trips! This post is part of an ongoing Summer Reading for Kids series. Click HERE to find ideas for reading activities, reading lists, and reading incentives…and keep checking back for more! Summer reading is one of my…
As the mother of three daughters, parenting girls is something I constantly worry about. When they were little, it was one thing, but now that my youngest is 12 and my eldest is already out of the house, I worry about it even more. The things that teenage girls face today are so different than…
Okay. So I recognize that I have really dropped the ball in posting book reviews—or anything at all—lately. What I have been doing lately is trying to read more, so I do have a good list to share with you for the last couple months. (Plus, I added a couple that I read before Christmas…
We were out of town so much in August that I was never able to get the July book report up, so I am combining July and August. I didn’t have the chance to read as much as I would have liked this summer, anyway. I really enjoyed the books I did read, though, and…
I didn’t read as much in June as I had hoped I would. The kids got out of school on June 8 and that first week was crazy busy. I always hope that once summer begins I’ll have a ton of reading time, but this year has just been different since my kids are older…
This post is part of an ongoing Summer Reading for Kids series. Click HERE to find ideas for reading activities, reading lists, and reading incentives…and keep checking back for more! School has been out for two weeks now, and while my girls got their book bins on the first day of summer vacation, I have been super slow…
I am really excited to begin a new series! I love to read and I want to share and review the books I have read with you regularly, and I figure a “Books I Read” monthly series would be the best way to do that. Since we are almost to June, I am going to…
Are you a busy mom that loves to read but can’t find the time? Try audiobooks and change your life! As an avid reader, I never really understood the allure of audiobooks until very recently. To me, reading out of a book was a sacred activity and somehow listening to it could never be a…
One of the most beloved Christmas traditions we have in our home is reading a Christmas book together each night before bed. Even though the girls are getting older and busier during the Christmas season, it’s something we all look forward to. Some of the books we read are absolute favorites and they look forward…
Are you a mom who loves reading but can’t find the time? Try these ideas to meet your reading goals this year! I love to read so much, but as a busy mom I often can’t fit it in. I feel like my days are spent doing chores, running kids around town, helping them with…
Reading books out loud to your children has many proven benefits As a mother, bedtime is a difficult time of day for me. I’d even go so far as to say it’s the absolute worst time of day for me. Everybody is exhausted, and the last thing I want to do is sit in their…
Whenever I host book club at my house, I love trying to come up with refreshments that match the book. Sometimes that’s easy because there is a particular food mentioned in the book or the book is set in a foreign country. But even if coming up with the idea is easy, I usually need…