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Happy March! This week, my twins turned fifteen (yikes!), so we celebrated with cookies, chocolate-covered fruit and cold medicine (yuck!). Plus, since it is officially Middle Grade March, I celebrated with a few books, too. This week, I have three books to share,...
I love quotes and I love mantras: bite-sized phrases and sentences with big impact. Here are a few that have been on my mind and heart lately: Less is more. 20% of our actions give us 80% of our results. Present is better than perfect. The small stuff is actually the...
My children were on February break this week and we tried to make the most of it: we went out for lunch, tried candle-making, joined a virtual chocolate tasting, took walks in the sun before the snowstorm came and watched a few movies, too. I’ve got two books to share, some...
I recently found myself scrolling through my social media feed and saw an advertisement for a beautiful 5-year journal. A 5-year journal is specifically designed to record experiences, events, feelings and thoughts from each day across a period of 5 years. If you open up to a particular day, you can...
It was a COLD week filled with Valentine’s Day desserts and random acts of kindness. I’ve got two beautiful books to share, a new word I’ve never heard of and my next passion project…it’s a good one! What I’m Reading: I read two books this week that had me turning the...
There are just some things that go together perfectly: peanut butter & jelly, green eggs & ham, peas & carrots and books & chocolate. If I had to choose, books and chocolate would be my favorite pairing (with books and coffee a close second!), especially if it was my favorite Salty...
How was your literate life this week? As always, I’m here to celebrate our literate lives with a sneak peek into my own. Here’s what I’ve been reading, writing, learning and loving this week. I’ve got three books to share, the perfect bookish writing prompt and a whole bunch of links...
I have a secret to share. When I am ready to purchase a new purse for the season, the first question I ask when browsing the shelves is this: Will my notebook easily fit into this? Really. I have multiple notebooks and I take many of them with me on a...