Once Upon a Time & Happily Ever After

Rediscovering Life after Retirement

Sentence a Day, 4.2017: Pool

Welcome, friends… By now, I think you know the drill…first Thursday of the month means it’s time for the “Sentence a Day” link-up. However, my sentences tend to be on the long-side…sometimes more like paragraphs. When you are a busy bee like me, it’s hard to sum up a day of life in a couple […]

31 Days of Children’s Books, Day 24

Sweet friends, Here we are again with another installment of “31 Days of Children’s Books”. Guess what happens this time next week? Well, Halloween. Yes, that’s true. But it will also be the last day of this series. Who’s counting? ME!!! This challenge has been…a challenge. There’s light at the end of the tunnel, though. […]

Help YOUR Kids Beat the Summer Slide 2016: Great Books to Share, #3

Dear readers, I ask you where has this summer gone? I had so much planned. Didn’t you? I need another month to finish the books I committed to reading. Thought I would catch up on my scrapbooking. All six years that I am behind. My mosaic, yeah, haven’t touched it. What did I do with […]

Help YOUR Kids Beat the Summer Slide 2016: Great Books to Share

Dearest Readers, Welcome to the first post of this second year of my “Summer Slide” series. The ‘summer slide’ is the two+ months of academic knowledge lost by school age children during summer vacation. [source] The greatest losses are in the area of mathematical computation among all students and in math and reading among children […]

Title Talk: Books I’ve Been Reading Lately and a Link-Up

Huh-lo, gentle readers! Linking-up today with Alison at Puppies and Pretties for her “Reading Lately” series, January edition. I am reviewing the book(s) I’ve been reading lately. One of my goals for 2015 was to read at least one grown-up book a month. I did pretty well toward fulfilling that goal. But I also read a […]

TGIFTF, Thank Goodness, It’s Fairy Tale (Folktale) Friday: One Potato, Two Potato

Mirror, mirror on my wall Who’s the silliest blogger of all? Why me, of course. I am! TGIFTF, girls! Thank Goodness, It’s Fairy Tale Friday. It is actually Thursday night but guess who doesn’t have to work tomorrow? Oh, yeah, baby! Me. So this is my Friday night. And as much as I am loving […]