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May 4, 2017

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 […]

Filed Under: Family and Friends, Life and Style Tagged With: #Birthday, #Findingme, #NationalLibraryWeek, #ReDiscoverME, #Rediscovery, #RelayforLife, #Retirement, #SentenceaDay, #Sisters, #Substitutelibrarian, #SwimmingPool, #TexasLibraryAssociation

October 24, 2016

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. […]

Filed Under: Reviews and Reflection, Uncategorized Tagged With: #31DaysofChildren'sBooks, #31DaysofWriting, #Bookreviews, #Firegirl, #TexasBluebonnetAward, #TexasLibraryAssociation, #Titletalk, #TonyAbbott, Uncategorized

August 25, 2016

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 […]

Filed Under: Reviews and Reflection, Uncategorized Tagged With: #Bookreviews, #PoemsintheAttic, #SummerSlide, #TexasBluebonnetAward, #TexasLibraryAssociation, #TheAmazingAgeofJohnRoyLynch, #TheTerribleTwo, #Titletalk, Uncategorized

July 6, 2016

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 […]

Filed Under: Reviews and Reflection, Uncategorized Tagged With: #BluebonnetReadingProgram, #SummerSlide, #TexasBluebonnetAward, #TexasLibraryAssociation, #Titletalk, Uncategorized

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January 31, 2016

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 […]

Filed Under: Reviews and Reflection, Uncategorized Tagged With: #BluebonnetReadingProgram, #Bookreviews, #PuppiesandPretties, #ReadingLately, #Substitutelibrarian, #TexasLibraryAssociation, #The13thGift, #Titletalk, Uncategorized

October 30, 2015

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 […]

Filed Under: Life and Style, Reviews and Reflection, Uncategorized Tagged With: *OnePotatoTwoPotato, #AndreaU'Ren, #BluebonnetReadingProgram, #Bookreviews, #CynthiaDeFelice, #Fairytales, #Folktales, #TexasLibraryAssociation, #TGIFTF, #Titletalk, Uncategorized

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In what felt like the blink of an eye, I have gone from full-time wife to my sweet husband, hands-on mom to my two beautiful daughters and elementary school librarian to a retired, empty nester with lots of time on my hands. Join me on my journey to rediscover who I am. Glad you are here...

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11.25.2020 Day 25 of the #25DaysofGratitude #autum 11.25.2020 Day 25 of the #25DaysofGratitude #autumnphotochallenge Today's prompt: #family. The family that hikes together stays together. 
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11.23.2020 Day 23 of the #25DaysofGratitude #autum 11.23.2020 Day 23 of the #25DaysofGratitude #autumnphotochallenge Today's prompt: #books Of which I have so many. Decided it is time to purge the books I had collected for Library lessons. Giving them to teacher friends, a @littlefreelibrary and @kindercare Like saying goodbye to old friends.  And closing a chapter in my life.
Tomorrow's prompt: quiet.
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11.22.2020 Day 22 of the #25DaysofGratitude #autum 11.22.2020 Day 22 of the #25DaysofGratitude #autumnphotochallenge Today's prompt: good health.  We walked up #mckelligoncanyon this morning and remarked on the number of vapor trails in the sky. Hope it is an indication to a return to health - physically and financially - for @elpasotexas and our country.
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11.21.2020 Day 21 of the #25DaysofGratitude #autum 11.21.2020 Day 21 of the #25DaysofGratitude #autumnphotochallenge Today's prompt: warm beverage.  Clearly I need a refill! Cleaning my coffeemakers for company this week. @keurig @hamiltonbeach
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11.20.2020 Day 20 of the #25DaysofGratitude #autum 11.20.2020 Day 20 of the #25DaysofGratitude #autumnphotochallenge Today's prompt: #play as in playing #aroundtheworld with our new $5 bouncy @fivebelow basketball.  We had been playing with a @dollartree bouncy baseball.  THAT WAS A CHALLENGE.  So much fun! Guess who won?
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11.19.2020 Day 20 of the #25DaysofGratitude #autum 11.19.2020 Day 20 of the #25DaysofGratitude #autumnphotochallenge Today's prompt: #work 
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