Today is my day to channel Vintage Kids Books My Kid Loves. My mom visited us a week or so ago, and brought with her a bunch of books she’d picked up at the library sale in her town. They were all animal encyclopedia books, for the most part, because those are...
Why do I always forget about the Scarborough Marsh? It’s close, beautiful, and theoretically an easy walk for the kids. Plus Henry voted for A Day in the Salt Marsh as the Chickadee Award winner, so he was all full of salt marsh facts, which made him happy. And...
Walking home from the hardware store, we passed a little pond. Eli: Let’s stop and look for birds. Julie: Ok. Eli: There’s one. Julie: That’s a crow. [Crow flies into a tree.] Eli: He’s lonely. Julie: Maybe he just wants some quiet time. Eli:...
There are some artists on Etsy who do things that I love so much that I feel an unreasonable urge to buy everything they’re making. Maybe some people would look at their stuff and not care about it one whit, and I’m sure there are artists on Etsy who do...
