Rich MOMents

Anyone who knows me well knows that I love children's literature. Love, love, love it! But I am increasingly disturbed by some of the im...

Sigh. I'm reading Strawberry Girl aloud to LilDude. It's a Newbery Award book by Lois Lenski. The text reads: "Azuloy, a fifte...

GG is becoming trilingual. First language, Cantonese. Second language, Mandarin. Third language, English. Access to Cantonese is limited, bu...

Rudi Matt, a 16-year-old dishwasher, wishes to climb mountains like his father who died trying to conquer the greatest and most terrible mou...

Nope. I didn't get a 1,235lb New Years present. But someone did. A few years back... ;) In 1801, citizens of Cheshire, Massachusetts, be...

We have been more-or-less snowed in for the last week, plus. Four of the last five school days were canceled. Time for my public school kind...

One of our favorite books, Bee-bim Bop! , uses playful rhyme to depict a child and her mother making this Korean dish. It's a cute, cute...

Looking for inexpensive Christmas traditions to start this year? Here's one idea... The availability of children's Christmas books i...

Today at lunch, ‘LilDude (5) pipes up and says, “Sometimes it’s better to be alone than to be scared.” I couldn’t figure out what he was tal...

Just read to 'LilDude (5) before bed. We read Everybody Cooks Rice for the first time. It led to a fascinating discussion. During the ...