The last day of the library book sale was “Bag Day” at $5/bag of books. It was surprisingly well organized by age and by theme, and I loaded up on Christmas picture books for our annual Book Advent. You can read that post here. It was ridiculously easy to flip through all the bins of … Continue reading Library Book Sale – Christmas School Prep
We enjoy participating in the Idaho Falls extreme book nerd challenges even though we live in Nevada now. The challenges are a lot of fun. The books have to be at least 100 pages in length to count for this challenge. Here’s what we listened to together or read independently to complete the Idaho Falls … Continue reading Extreme Book Nerd 2024 – Completed!
I bought this book for the booklist but I got more than I anticipated. Though the subject matter was “preaching to the choir”, I got more out of it than I expected. Here are some of my favorite take aways: As parents we are concerned about building whole people - people who are alive emotionally, … Continue reading Honey for a Child’s Heart
I just finished this book. It took me awhile to get into it, once I got to the middle-ish I really started loving it. I recommend reading it! We are constantly being formed by the world around us. To be formed by Jesus requires each of us to become His apprentice.
I dropped out of the homeschool mom’s book club. The meeting time conflicted with our family’s evening routine. Even though the book club was only once a month, I didn’t want to give up our evening routine. It’s too important. It’s long, and it’s time consuming, and it’s when we create our family culture of … Continue reading Memory Making Mom
heavens to betty 