"Mommy, can we please bake cookies? The kind where you have to mash them down with the rollie thing?" This is what my six year old daughter asked me last Tuesday morning. She was referring to homemade cookies rolled out with my wooden rolling pin. I'm sad to admit I wondered how she even knew... Continue Reading →
Darkness to Hope
Ever since I allowed myself to write a few days ago, I have been extremely weepy. I have cried more the last few days than I have in 8 months. I am crying at everything. Happy tears. Sad tears. Just because tears, which are maybe really cleansing tears. I am realizing I am feeling again.... Continue Reading →
Too long
My 5 year-old's reading lesson this week includes three new sight words...to, too, and two. She understood the concept of two (the number) and to (in the direction of) pretty quickly. It took a bit more to understand the word too. Too - also or very. As I was trying to give her examples of... Continue Reading →