27
Sep
Life Lately
This picture pretty much sums of life lately… The laundry continues to pile up on the bed. Dishes pile up in the sink. Will is busy with school. I’m busy with work and restyling my blog. L is busy being a two-year-old. Sleep has become an afterthought. We’ve been working on finding some semblance of [...]
18
Sep
Pirate Storytime
Yo, ho, ho ya scurvy dogs! International Talk Like a Pirate Day is tomorrow, September 19th! To celebrate, the Sunday Storytime was everything pirates! We talked like pirates, read books about pirates, sang pirate sea shantys, and dressed up like pirates– eye patch and all! ARRR!!!! Pirate Storytime Line-Up: How I Became a Pirate by [...]
11
Sep
Miss Becca’s Storytime Mixer
I’ve been waiting for a few books to come in that I’ve inter-library loaned specifically for storytime, so I decided this week would be a good time to have another storytime mixer. A storytime mixer is when I read some of my favorite books and also a few brand new books that I think the [...]
3
Sep
68 Tiny Distractions
Those rooms you breezed through just now… they’re miniature. Go ahead, scroll up, and take another looksie. Incredible, right? These pictures above are only a sampling of a permanent gallery of miniature rooms called The Thorne Rooms in the Art Institute of Chicago. A few weeks ago, I read The Sixty-Eight Rooms by Marianne Malone, a [...]
