Mean Girls: 3 Tips for You and Your Girl
Welcome back for the final post of our Mean Girls series! Here's the first installment if you'd like to catch up. This post will focus on some practical ways to navigate the mean girls in our lives as well as some questions to ask ourselves to make sure we're not...
Review: A Hobbit, A Wardrobe and A Great War by Joseph Loconte
In honor of Hobbit Day this past Saturday... here's my ode to Tolkien - and his good friend Lewis. This post contains affiliate links. From the Back Cover: "J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis enjoyed one of the most consequential friendships of the twentieth century - a...
Mean Girls – Part 1
It started in third grade. Her two "BFFs" from the neighborhood (sisters) demanded that she give back the necklace proclaiming their friendship because they didn't all end up in the same class together. She was devastated, so hurt that the friendship she thought was...
Review: My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud’homme
From the Back Cover: Julia Child singlehandedly awakened America to the pleasures of good cooking with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she didn't know the first...
Creativity Experiment 2018: how it went & what we learned
I can’t believe it’s done, but summer officially is over. Yesterday, the busses came and all three of my backpack-laden creative people got on and left. For the first time, I wasn’t ready. Oh, I had all the school supplies collected and labeled, but I still had more...
Summer, Kids & Creativity: A Journey
Each of them, whether they see it yet or not, is created to create. Numbers, paper, pencil, marker, paint, doodles, words, sentences, ingredients, balsa wood, Legos… we cannot help it. Our Creator is worshiped when we reflect Him. I want them to see this.