I recently started something new in our family. I've lowered the time by one hour for when all technology has to be turned off. Then I read to everyone. Not for an hour - I wouldn't last that long. For the first half of our reading time I'm reading Amazing Love: True Stories of the …
This year Father's Day has been a little hard. My oldest daughter and I have agreed that we will be glad when we're past it. That being said I don't want to ignore Father's Day so I've decided to use it as a time to celebrate the wonderful father that my husband was. From the …
A few years ago I discovered a Reading Challenge put out by PopSugar every January. I have enjoyed doing it because quite often through the challenge I have been pushed into reading something I wouldn't have otherwise due to the challenge. I wasn't able to do it last year because of dealing with my husband's …
This has been a frustrating week. Back in December I sprained both of my wrists in separate incidents. Since then they have never really healed. To be honest, I don't think I'm resting them enough. It's Just. So. Hard. This week I realized that like it or not I had to cut back on playing …
So right now I'm reading two books. Well, three actually, but we won't get into that. Anyway, I like to have a paper back/hard cover book and one on my Kindle. My paper back book right now is called Safe Passage by Ida Cook. It's a memoir about two British sisters who rescued quite a few …
My older children are out on a long-awaited day trip with my parents so they aren't here for me to get reading recommendations from. Instead in the interest in helping anyone out there whose child is struggling with reading, I thought I would share with you how the DEAR program has helped and is helping …
This has been a hard week. My husband had kidney stones which ended up with him spending the morning yesterday in the hospital. Thankfully everything checked out that he's over this, and I pray it never returns. Anyway, I've kept my reading light this week so I've been enjoying a Grace Livingston Hill book - …
Wow! I just checked and it's been about a month since I did a "library" post. This isn't going to be a typical one. I thought that five months in, I should update how I'm doing on the 2016 Reading Challenge. Almost half way through the year and I only have about 20% of the …
I was checking, and it's been quite a while since I did a post where I told you what each of us is reading. Sorry about that. Right now I'm reading Oliver Twist. I've been wanting to read it for a while, but what pushed me over the edge was a really bad BBC production …
Thanks to a friend I've been introduced to the world of Nero Wolfe by Rex Stout. I was given two Nero Wolfe books, and so far I've read And Four To Go. I am so glad that I found this wonderful character. And a character Nero Wolfe is. He's big (one-seventh of a ton as …
Intentional Simplicity 