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Two Animal Books and Tracing Animal Textures

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This week JDaniel had read Animals Talk and Animals Go by Emily Bolam. These beautiful board books don't contain a lot of print. Each animal has a single word they would say in Animals Talk. The Animals Go book contains a single word for what each animal would do. They don't actually show the animal moving or talking. These leaves open the avenue Continue Reading

Yield! Family in Boot Camp

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This yellow shirt tells you where my family is right now. We are in Toddler Boot Camp. Notice I didn’t say JDaniel was in Toddler Boot Camp. My husband and I are going through Boot Camp too. When you think about boot camp or at least when I do I think of the drill sergeant in an Officer and a Gentleman yelling at the new recruits. At my house, Continue Reading

Morning Words Out of My Toddlers Mouth

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The first words JDaniel says each morning when I go to get him out of his crib tell me a lot about what he was thinking about right before he went to sleep or when he first woke up. They are usually very interesting.Here are some examples:I went to volunteer at a consignment sale last week and my husband put JDaniel to bed.JDaniel: “Daddy put on Continue Reading

Muffin Tin Monday- Christmas Breakfast in August

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When you let your two year old pick out the tin for his lunch, he may pick out a Christmas tin in August. The Santas, snowman, and gingerbread men are covered with food, but I bet you can still see their outlines. We tried a new breakfast casserole this week with leeks, blueberries, and turkey sausage. It was good. It needed something, but I Continue Reading

A Book About Home and A Home for Construction Vehicles

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The link above is an affiliate link. After being on the road from July 20th through July 26th, it is wonderful to be home. There were a few times while we were gone that I wished I could have just put my house on wheels and brought it with me the way the characters in Home did. This wonderful book subtitled Once There Was A House, A House That Continue Reading

The Orange Sign, The Wedding, The GPS, and the Deer

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JDaniel is so into John Deere right now. It could be because his Cousin Charlie’s room is decorated in John Deere pictures. While we were up visiting my sister Kate’s family in the country outside of Syracuse, NY we saw a lot of orange signs. The only one that really stood out to JDaniel was the John Deere signs. I know they are supposed to be a Continue Reading

The Adventures of Driving to New York and Back

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Visiting Gettysburg

  I really dreaded the long car ride two weeks ago to New York from our house in South Carolina. While JDaniel and I looked forward to seeing my sister Kate’s family and going to a family wedding, the hours in the car were going to be a challenge. I drove the first leg of the trip from South Carolina to Virginia without any trouble. JDaniel Continue Reading

Muffin Tin Monday- Breakfast with a Swap

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I am starting a month long series of Muffin Tin Monday breakfast tins today. This week’s breakfast features two animals we saw on our visit to my sister Kate’s house in New York. She took her two children, JDaniel and I to several farms as part of local farm tour event. One of the farms had cows. JDaniel speaks cow so he had a lot of fun there. Continue Reading

Free Personalized Cards from Tiny Prints for Teachers

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I taught for twenty-one years. One of the reasons I think I went into teaching was because I had wonderful teachers. I remember most of them fondly. Each was amazing in their own way. The teacher that stands out most is my mom. I was never in her class per se. I was able to watch how she taught her students and cared for each of them as individuals Continue Reading

Mice on Main Street And In My House

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Here in Greenville, S.C. we have a great mouse hunt on Main Street. Bronze mice are scattered up and down the street. Some are easy to find and others are quite difficult. I took my nephews down to search for them. We had a print out of clues that I found on the Mouse on Main website. The mice are very popular and have even had a children’s book Continue Reading

Two Red Ys

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We were exploring downtown Greenville and came across this red sculpture. It is titled Untitled. When JDaniel and I stopped to look at it, I asked him what he thought it was. He replied “Ys”. It really does look like two ys stacked together.This sculpture is sort of symbolic of conversations I have with JDaniel some days. They seem to be filled Continue Reading

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