Five Great Chapter Books To Read With Your Kids
Did you know May 12-18 is Children’s Book Week according to the Children’s Book Council? I didn’t either until I decided to write about the chapter books my kids and I have enjoyed reading together. What a lucky coincidence. When Max was three he loved a book called The Truck Book. The Truck Book was [...]
March is National Reading Month: Five Great Children’s Books
March isn’t just the month I where the snow starts to melt (yay), oozing into my basement in long streams of water (boo). Only to start snowing again and then melting again, March is the month of spring foolery. No, March is also the month of National Reading! Last year’s National Reading Month coincided with [...]
Get your juices flowing. (Back-to-School: best getting-ready-for-school books)
Do you remember an orange juice commercial from the late 80′s where a family was getting ready to rush out on their day? Kids for school, parents for work all gathered around the table frantically eating breakfast? I have a vivid memory from the summer before eight grade, that Citrus Hill Select commercial seemed to [...]
Not just pencils, ‘Desk Enhancements’. (Back-to-School: best school supplies)
It seems even the kids in my little group of friends are ready to go back to school. My children are punching each other in the face, not because they’re fighting, but because they’re so bored. My girlfriend’s three daughters spent the other day laying on the floor with their new backpacks on asking if [...]
Or you could just buy lunch at school. (Back-to-School: best lunch boxes)
Yesterday we had our last Summer Tuesday Playgroup with my group of friends and their kids. As I’ve mentioned, I’m ready for school to start and have been ready for school to start for most of the month. Today as we said our goodbyes I told Max to tell his friends to have a good [...]
Back-to-School: the best backpacks
When my mother chose the name Melissa for me in 1973, she thought it was a beautiful name and unlike any of the names she’d heard around the neighborhood. She thought it was ‘unique’. She hadn’t heard of any other babies with my name at least until she arrived at the pediatrician’s office for my [...]
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