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Get Your Kids Reading This Summer – Pt. 5 Start a Book Club

Are you looking for some summer reading ideas for your kids?  How about a Kids Book Club?? You, or at least someone you know, are probably in a book club.  The popularity of book clubs in America (and maybe around the world?) is pretty amazing.  It would be interesting to know why people join book…

Travel Intentionally ~ 5 surprising reasons you’ll want to try it!

Travel Intentionally ~ 5 surprising reasons you’ll want to try it!

  Over the past several years, our family has traveled quite a bit.  And, it’s been an intentional decision!  Not just, hey let’s go on vacation, but wow, we’ve only got our kids for a few more years – let’s make them count!  Hence the idea of intentional travel! For me, it hit me when…

The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – Book Review

The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – Book Review

The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg I read The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler for the first time when I was in college taking a Children’s Literature class.  I enjoyed the story line then and enjoyed it now.  But I have to say that re-reading it as…

How to Live Intentionally and Choose Your Own Adventure
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How to Live Intentionally and Choose Your Own Adventure

I have been thinking lately about the notion of living intentionally.  How do we live intentionally?  And, why?? I remember my daughter asking me several years ago if we were poor.  I answered her no, why?  Her answer was, “if we are not poor why don’t we have…”.  I thought about it for a minute, because I felt like the…

Dinosaur Cove Attack of the Tyrannosaurus – Book Review

Dinosaur Cove Attack of the Tyrannosaurus – Book Review

Dinosaur Cove: Attack of the Tyrannosaurus If you have a young dinosaur lover in your house, this book series is a must-read! Children enjoy reading Attack of the Tyrannosaurus because it is a fun, exciting, and fast-paced book.  This is the story of Jamie, who has just moved to Dinosaur Cove, and Tom.  Because they are young boys and similar,…

NO TV Summer?! Unexpected Reasons You’ll Want to Turn the TV Off!

NO TV Summer?! Unexpected Reasons You’ll Want to Turn the TV Off!

What?  No TV?  Are you kidding?  That was pretty much the conversation in our house the first time I introduced the idea to my kids (and husband) that we turn the TV off for the summer.  They were fairly young (my kids), probably 3rd & 5th grade at the time.  Nickelodeon and Disney were very popular…

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children ~ Book Review
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children ~ Book Review

When reading Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,  I almost put it down, several times, because I thought it was going to be really creepy!  The photographs, the beginning chapters all pointed to a creepy, horror story.  This book might even be categorized as a horror story. I was compelled, though, to continue reading, and  I’m glad I did!…