If you’ve been reading here for awhile, you probably know that each year our family makes the (long) road trip south to my grandmother’s farm for Thanksgiving. It’s the one time a year that we get to meet up with my father’s side of the family, and the visit is always worth the hours and…
Author: thirdstoryies
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We’re in the middle of reading Half Magic by Edward Eager to the little one. We are at the point in the story where the children have figured out that magic is indeed happening, but something appears to be slightly off. Wishes are being granted, but only by half. So now they are tasked with making…
(story)time: The Eleventh Hour, A Curious Mystery by Graeme Base
This week is starting to feel like the eleventh hour. We’re in that place where the holidays are still far enough away to feel like we can actually finish all the things that we plan to do beforehand, but close enough to them to understand that if we don’t act on some of those ideas…