To get excited for the Halloween season, we decided to pause our regular before bedtime story, and pull out some Halloween books instead. I had my mother go through her collection, and she included 7 or 8 when she sent us our mail and the rest we’ve been able to get through our library overdrive or from the…
Dear Rachel, You are turning in to quite the young lady! I’m so proud of you. As the oldest there’s kind of a lot of responsibility, but you shoulder it well. You are good to your brother and sister and are great at organizing play and having fun! Like your brother, you also LOVE to…
August 24, 2014 Dear Andrew, You have turned 7 years old! I can’t believe it! Just yesterday I swear I was dropping you off for your first day of pre-school. You’ve grown so much over the last year of our travels and I’m very proud of you. You love to read. If traveling has given…
This post is Part 4 of a series on our first Christmas experience living full-time on the road in an Airstream. Here’s also Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Our kids were very worried that Santa wouldn’t find us this year, with all our moving about. We assured them that we would make sure he knew…
[…] Months ago, I backed a KickStarter project called Robot Turtles, a board game designed to teach kids fundamental concepts of programming. I had been thinking about using programming as part of our home school curriculum, and this was a great place to start. We received Robot Turtles just before Christmas, and it was one of the gifts opened during our Airstream Christmas. […]ReplyCancel
This post is Part 3 of a series on our first Christmas experience living full-time on the road in an Airstream. Here’s also Part 1 & Part 2. Christmas afternoon we piled in the truck and headed to Spring, TX where all the cousins were gathering for Christmas Eve celebrations. For them, Christmas Eve is…
We added Crankenstein (https://www.amazon.com/dp/031612656X/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_PJuuub17G35JD) to our collection this year. It’s hilarious and so spot in descriptions of grumpy kids (and adults!) We just got it and I have already heard a few times, “Are you being a Crankenstein?”
That one looks super fun! I’ll have to add it to our wish list for next year!
Our favorite Halloween book is called Room on the Broom. It’s one of the few books I can read over and over. We also love several of your favorites, especially the Berenstain Bear books.
[…] Out in the Desert by T. J. Marsh – We saw the same literary pattern in one of our Halloween books last fall, but that didn’t make it any less enjoyable. We have this one as a boardbook in the […]