Category: (story)time

This week I’ve been thinking about (and missing) my grandmother. It started when F was playing with her dolls over the weekend, and she was making them a bed with a quilted iris wall hanging my grandmother made for me many years ago, and later that night when I found her snuggled up under another…

The daycare that both my girls have attended / are attending used to reside in the classroom wing of a neighborhood church. Each room had large window openings, and the toddler and younger preschool rooms looked out over the parking lot. Each morning we’d pull into the small lot, get out of the car and…

Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch by Eileen Spinelli. I’m terribly, terribly sorry that I didn’t mention this book before Valentine’s Day, but hopefully you will forgive me after adding it to your library. The story first centers around the holiday, but it’s certainly a book you will enjoy reading all year long. My mother taught elementary school, and…