Reading great books together is a part of our young family’s culture and I get asked fairly regularly how I get my kids to “sit still and pay attention” for chapter books. Here are my top 5 tips: Start early. My first two children vary a great deal in the length of their attention span, but from the time they […]
Month: November 2012
Redheads in the Fall
We were lucky enough to have my mom come out and stay for a whole week in October. She was so helpful that I was able to catch up on rest, step in to coach one of Mackenzie’s soccer games, run a few essential errands, and gear up for the potty training tornado that touched down at our house the […]
Ode to Grandma Bean
My mother-in-law is an amazing woman. She arrived 5 days after Daniel’s birth to find her little granddaughters sick and quarantined, her daughter-in-law recovering from delivery, and 120 pounds of apples that needed to be processed. She rolled up her sleeves and helped us can 3 dozen quarts of skins-on applesauce and a half dozen pints of apple butter (a […]