The holidays are all about family and traditions. Old traditions and new traditions. You take the happy traditions you grew up with and instill them into your own family and make-up new ones as the years go by. One of the new traditions we started a few years back takes place on Christmas Day. It all started with the little ones going upstairs to watch from the loft. Then the adult family ... continue reading...
Brave Irene – Children’s Book with CD
Our granddaughter is honing her reading skills in kindergarten. She loves to "show off" and read to us every chance she gets. However ... she still brings us books and snuggles up on our laps so that we can read to her. Even though we hope there are still many years of snuggling with books in the future, sometimes we aren't available in person to share a book with her. These are the ... continue reading...
Here We Go! – An Exciting Adventurous Storybook
We have a special verbal game we play with our grandchildren. We call it our Adventure Story. It's interactive and everyone can participate. It's a "to be continued ..." story where we travel wherever our imaginations take us and we have a remarkable time. Anyone and everyone can be in our Adventure Story. (Recently Britt was there carrying Yoda in her backpack!) We leave it to Cody, our ... continue reading...
Gracie’s Gift – Children’s Book
Gracie's Gift is a precious little story book. The story of Gracie truly hit home for me as I think it will for anyone who has a little princess (or two, or three ...) in their life. Author Andrea Trosclair takes us on an inspired journey of love as Sean Gautreaux brings Gracie to life with splendid illustrations. The story opens the morning of Gracie's birthday. She's wakes and climbs ... continue reading...
Activision Games for Girls Summit
Last week we took our 5-year old grand daughter to the Activision Games for Girls Summit where all three of us had an extraordinary time. Activision has taken the most popular toys and made interactive video games from them. These games are available in the DS format and have been a hit with not only Kennedy but her older brothers and parents too. The six games we were introduced to are Moshie ... continue reading...