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Christmas Books!
After making my list of books to read in the weeks leading up to Halloween, I decided to do the same thing for Christmas! Henry and I have been having a lot of fun reading our Halloween books together.- The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story
- Christmas Day in the Morning
- Christmas Farm
- Christmas Tapestry
- The Trees of the Dancing Goats
- An Orange for Frankie
- The Night Before the Night Before Christmas
- Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia!
- The Christmas Truck
- Christmas Around the World
- Christmas in Noisy Village
- The Nutcracker
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We are getting ready to start the next round of Purposeful Conception: Preparing Your Mind, Body, and Life for Pregnancy on Monday!Although I am on the other side of conception (I have a 15 month-old and a 3.5 year-old and my husband got a vasectomy), I still love talking about everything that surrounds conception, pregnancy, birth, and parenting.Just yesterday, I was talking with a pregnant friend/colleague who was explaining that she doesn’t feel like she’s “supposed” to feel in terms of the proverbial “maternal instinct.”I connected with another friend/colleague last week who got accidentally pregnant and didn’t know it until she had a miscarriage.Last weekend I -
Halloween Books
Halloween is around the corner!
As my children get older, I think more and more about our seasonal traditions and rituals. Last year, we started a tradition of hosting a Halloween pizza party and then trick-or-treating with our neighbors. We definitely want to continue that tradition this year, but I also want to add in a new tradition: reading books about Halloween in the weeks leading up to the holiday!
I pulled together a list of books that look interesting to me. Since Henry is only three and is still very much a concrete thinker who is trying to wrap his brain around the world, I gravitate more toward … Read More