Shanspirations

Anna had become fascinated with a little book called, “Go, Dog, Go.” It was silly, it was funny. It had lines like:
Stop, dogs, stop!
The light is red.
Go, dogs, go!
It’s green ahead.

She liked to read it a lot and her daddy had been reading it to her before bed nightly.
Now we were on our way [...]

I think I would have been passionately interested in this subject, How Not to Get Sick, for much of my life if I had even known it was possible to avoid getting sick. But I grew up thinking there was little or nothing one could do to avoid getting a cold or flu. [...]

Yesterday Anna turned two years old. Several weeks ago, I bought a blank children’s hardcover book for Anna so that I could make her a homemade storybook about her birthday.
I know she won’t be picky and the story needn’t be perfect, just something that she can enjoy for years to come. I am going [...]

My brother-in-law received the following newspaper-style account by email from his wife, Nycole, who had written and sent it to him while he was at work. Their partly potty-trained toddler, my niece, Madelina, is the subject. We were later sent a copy of the email (by Blaine, who thought it was funny) and I laughed [...]

As we raise our little girl, all sorts of questions about future decisions we’ll have to make come to mind. One of them has been whether or not we’ll let Anna do sleepovers when she’s older. I enjoyed them when I was growing up, so I didn’t want to deprive her of something fun. Yet [...]

Several months ago I discovered a site/blog about journaling with children. I loved the concept! When my little girl gets just a bit older, I want to do this with her. I also really want the book, The Gift of Family Writing!
Any family members reading? Maybe for Anna’s two year birthday [...]

I found this post of Dawn’s over here and it gave me a flash of Shanspiration. Here’s a few excerpts (italics are mine):

I don’t get Mother’s Day. I don’t want to be a party pooper or a Scrooge…Mooge…or be the one to rain on everyone’s parade, but I don’t get Mother’s Day.
I don’t [...]

I want to share something fun we did recently to teach our little girl how to stop. I’d been wanting to teach her this for a while because she and I go on daily walks outside with her often getting to run free by my side, and if there were any sudden danger, I wanted [...]