Tag Archive | books
How many books do you have?
I have over 1500 children’s books. I know because in the late 90s, I was teaching and, imagining the future children I hoped to have, collecting books mostly via the Scholastic book clubs I sent home with my students, and I created a database of all of ones I had then. They numbered 1500 then. [...]
Happy Harry Potter Month
Here is my new computer desktop. I got the images by googling and I had to stretch the big one in Photoshop Elements. None of the wallpaper images I found were big enough for my iMac screen (2560×1440). It still looks good despite the stretching. Yes, we are Harry Potter fans here, and we’re looking [...]
Last Day of the World journaling
In honor of the Last Day of The World, Paperclipping offered these journaling prompts. Here are my answers. If you decide to copy, please comment so I can read your answers. What was the last song you listened to? Probably something my daughter was singing, one of her songs. Who was the last person you [...]
Capture Your 365 Blog Hop
I’m part of the Capture Your 365 Blog Hop! I just discovered this fun new site two days ago. It looks like a great place for 365′ers to share and find encouragement. If you’re hopping along sequentially you’ve come from Beth’s Our Typical Life and the next stop will be Christine’s Life or Something Like [...]
Postaday #68
Name a book that changed your life. What influence did it have on your thoughts, attitudes, and actions? [I've just returned from a week in California. After not looking at my new blog design for a week, now that I'm looking at it with fresh eyes, I think.... I don't like it very much and [...]
Project 365 Day 2
One of the books we have read many times, and we read again today, is The Gingerbread Man. I asked Ian if he’d like to make our own gingerbread man with the recipe on the back of the book. He stirred the dry ingredients and I did the rest. I don’t play around with my [...]
Friday Fill In
#196 So…here we go! 1. One of my strongest beliefs is _that children deserve to be respected, not treated as lesser people_. 2. _We have two spiders decorating our house right now that are_ huge! 3. The sky is cloudy with a threat of rain and wind and cold, so _I am grateful I do [...]
symbols
This morning, even though I set my alarm because I doubted I could wake up on time without it, I woke up an hour before said alarm was set. I’m a morning bird by nature, so I’m fine with this. It means I have an extra hour of peace at my favorite time of day! [...]
Homebirth is far from selfish
I just watched this video of a breech homebirth (shared by As Nature Intended on Facebook today). In the comments section following the video, someone wrote that they “believe that home birthing is selfish.” As if I chose to homebirth just for myself. Let’s try to imagine the point of view of my son, who [...]
photography lessons
This is me a lot lately. I’m loving my new Canon Rebel T1i. In the month since I bought my new camera, I have only let a few days pass by without photographing something. I’m devouring articles at Digital Photography School and re-watching the lessons from John Greengo’s Fundamentals of Digital Photography class. I even [...]
