What’s It About?

I like to think that I’m more of a spontaneous person than I really am. Perhaps it’s that I like the idea of spontaneity more than the spontaneity itself, I’m not sure. When I was younger, I used to imagine myself living a life steeped in spontaneous moments,...

Just Right Celebrations

Goldilocks in the just right bed… Just like its present-day applications, the story of Goldilocks and The Three Bears evolved from its original tellings. Maybe you, like me, had no idea that the first story involving these characters came in the form of a...

Frog and Toad and Nostalgia

When our girls were younger, we always made a point of reading with them and it has been such a wonderful adventure seeing the ways reading has influenced them and the ways it created some special core memories. If you’re a fan of Inside Out and Inside Out 2, then you...

A Great Pumpkin Night

Good grief, Halloween is on the horizon and until today, we remained pumpkinless. But, at the suggestion of my 17 year old, almost as if she were reading my mind ( I love when we are on that same frequency), this evening we rounded up a small group of perfect pumpkins...

They’re Both a Little Batty

I’m not exactly sure when I chose to believe the myth that bats get stuck in people’s hair, but once I caught wind of that idea, I was convinced it was absolutely and completely true. And, as a woman with thick curly hair, I was convinced that any foray I made outside...