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Help YOUR Kids Beat the Summer Slide: Great Books to Share, Part 5

Hello, gentle readers! Did you think I had forgotten all about this Summer Slide series?  It has been about three weeks since my last installment but all those birthday posts in late July kind of got me off track.  I have had so many sweet friends offer to write reviews for one of their favorite […]

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First Monday’s Month in Review: Rewind July’s Numbers

Happy first Monday in August! Can you believe that it is already August? Where has the summer gone?  Just nuts.  Today I am linking up with my sweet Style Me Bloggers buddies Sarah at Foxy’s Domestic Side and Deena at Shoes to Shiraz to share our month of July recap in numbers posts.  For the June […]

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Nobody’s Cuter Than You: A Book and a BFF Review on Friendship Day

  [source] Dear Readers, Happy Friendship Day!!! In honor of this fabulous holiday, I want to send a big hug and kiss to all my friends out there! And on that note, I am blogging today about a book on friendship that I first heard about on Shay’s blog Mix and Match Family.  Shay really […]

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Help YOUR Kids Beat the Summer Slide: Great Books to Share, Part 4

Hello, gentle readers! It is that time again.  Time for another segment in my Summer Slide series.  If you are just joining us for the first time, please click here to learn more about this series. The review for today’s post comes to us from Bonnie, a friend and colleague from my school librarian days. […]

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

[source] Hello, gentle readers, Today’s post is the third installment in my Summer Slide series.  If you are just joining me for this series, you might be wondering what the summer slide is. It isn’t a piece of equipment along with the summer swing and summer jungle gym at your neighborhood park. The summer slide […]

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Happy Birthday, Our Sweet Land of Liberty

[source] Happy two hundred thirty-ninth birthday to the greatest country in the world! I am so blessed, so privileged to be an American.  And while I still take that blessing for granted every single day, having lived in a third-world country for part of my adult life helped me to realize how very fortunate I […]

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