Writing
Take Your Child to Work Day
For my 7yo, hearing she couldn’t go to Take Your Child to Work Day at daddy’s office until she turned eight was, well, horrifically painful, soul-torturing, complete and total devastation. Everyone was doing it. She turned to m…
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Writing
4 Signs a Writer Isn’t Writing & a Blogiversary
4 Signs a Writer Hasn’t Been Writing 1. Butt cheek indentations missing in writing chair. 2. Spring cleaning nearly done, and it’s still winter. 3. The laundry is done. All of it. …
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Writing
Watching the Wheels Turn
Tuesday was a hard day. Both kids were sniffly. There was a snow delay after a snow day, and the walls were closing in on us all. My little one fell in the garage and busted her lip. Have you noticed lip booboos blee…
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Persistence Party
I’ve had a touch of stinkifunkitis in 2015. (No this isn’t the same as the funkysmellitosis I’m also suffering from after a very sweaty yoga class.) My word of the year in 2014 was REVISE. And I revised my patootie off. …
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A Loss for Words
I haven’t posted in a few-ish weeks (yikes!) I’ve started a bunch of posts, but then just didn’t finish them. I wanted to tell you how I brought the unwrapped Christmas presents down too soon from the attic and put them in m…
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Jimmy Cantore Steals Christmas
Ho, ho, ho! It's time for another fun year of Susanna Hill's Christmas Story Contest . She's come up with a doozy this year. The Contest : Write a children's story (children here defined as approximately ag…
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Young Readers
Geeking Out - Leveling Books for New Readers
My 6yo and I GEEKED OUT last week. Over 2 days, we leveled our personal library following the Fountas & Pinnell system her teacher uses. In her first grade classroom, books are in tubs with a letter on them. Kids know…
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