Summer essentials – Maybe these are wants more than NEEDS, but below you’ll find everything we love for summer. From the best natural sunscreens to an awesome popsicle mold…we’ve got you covered! We had our first real-deal pool day last weekend, and we’re solidly into the 90-100 degree temperatures. School gets out next week, so…
13 Picture Books We Love Lately
It’s been ages since I’ve done a regular kids’ book post! We’ve been through stacks and stacks of books over the last few months, so I feel like this post could be about 50 books long. To spare you a reeeeally long post, here are 13 picture books we’ve loved lately…
Books for a Fresh Start
I’m a sucker for fresh starts, and I love the feeling in the air of everyone trying to start the year off on the right foot. Whether you set resolutions or goals for the year or not, here are a few of my favorite books for motivating positive change and becoming more like the person…
My Favorite Grown-Up Coloring Books
I was always a doodler at school. My extremely detailed notes (seriously, they’d make Hermoine proud) were punctuated with sidebars full of doodles, hand lettering practice, etc. Since the INSTANT Sophie was big enough and interested enough to wield a colored pencil or crayon, I’ve made sure we have a stash of blank pages and…
Books for Cold Days
I’ve already talked about our favorite Christmas books, but there are so many good winter and snow books out there. We like to joke that some states (the ones with snow) “celebrate” winter. We don’t live in one of those states at the moment. But whether the weather is snowy or simply cold where you…
12 Spectacular Christmas Books
Many families, it seems, have a tradition of reading books around Christmas. Sometimes that means 24 wrapped books under the tree that you unwrap one at a time each day leading up to Christmas. Sometims that’s a 12 days before Christmas thing, or a handful of special favorites. In my house growing up, there were…
5 Good Books I’ve Loved This Year
It’s been a good reading year for me. Being part of a book club (even when other commitments have kept me from several of the meetings this year) has kept me in a good supply and Michael is such an avid reader, we’ve had a fun time exchanging recommendations. Here are a few of the…
5 Things I Learned from Tidying Up
It’s October, folks. I can’t really believe it. This late into the year, you’ve probably heard about The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. It got a LOT of attention in the news and across the blogosphere over the last many months and it seems every month or two there’s a new wave…
