Ok, remember I was the Home Biz of the Week over at The Home Biz Blogger?
Well, Eve also interviewed me for that and she has posted the interview. You can find it here:
Featured Home Business – My Very Own Mail Interview
I tell you, WAHM’s are some of the coolest people! I have thoroughly enjoy working and interacting with them!
WAHM = Work At Home Mom
Thanks a ton, Eve!
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I just love it when I have the letters all assembled – especially the months that I use random colors – everyone just gets two random colors for their two-page letters.
I got them all assembled and sent out today, but, while they were sitting there waiting to go into the proper envelopes, I thought they looked so cute that I took a picture of them.
Here it is:
And that is all I have to share today – just wanted to show you the cute and colorfulness of the letters all gathered up together!
GO READ A BOOK!
That is the name of a really great new blog by a stay at home mom of three precious girls. She is always on the lookout for great activities for her girls – fun and educational – and wants to share her finds with all of us. And so, she started Little Fun; Little Learning.
One of my favorite posts she’s made so far is all about some of the great books that she recommends reading to your kids. She actually lists some of my all-time favorites as she discusses Reading with your child.
It really is a great new blog, already filled up with many wonderful resources – you really should check it out!
GO READ A BOOK!
I send personalized letters to children once a month, and in each letter I write, I tell the kids about a wonderful book. I write two letters – one for older bookworms and one for younger bookworms.
Well, I finished writing my January letters yesterday, and I had so much fun searching for animal books to talk about!
I picked two really great ones, and I wanted to share them with you!
For my younger bookworms, I chose Eric Carle’s Animals Animals. This book looks so great and every single time I pick out a book to talk about I want to go out and get it for my kids! I better be careful and not listen to myself too much, or we’ll be living in a box made of books! Heehee! If I had the means available to me, I would have sooooooooooooo many books! It would be fabulous! Like those libraries in mansions with the sliding ladders…. aahhh…
Well! A girl can dream, can’t she?
Ok, ok, back to the book – it is filled with loads and loads of poetry from many different cultures! From Shakespeare to Lewis Carroll, from Emily Dickinson to Rudyard Kipling, from passages in the Bible to Japanese haikus!
And then, of course, there are the amazing and wonderfully colorful illustrations by Eric Carle – most of the animals gracing two pages each! The whale stretches out on four pages!
This book sounds really fabulous! Here it is:
The book I chose to talk about to my older bookworms is The Kingfisher First Encyclopedia of Animals. This book looks so awesome! I know, I know – I already said that about the other one, but, I just get so excited about the books that I find! (Hence, wanting to buy them all!) I mean, really, though – just look at the cover:
Doesn’t that look fabulous? I know, I know – you can’t judge a book by its cover, but, you know what? A cover can definitely draw you in! And draw me in, it did!
The best thing about this book is that it is not set up alphabetically, but, rather, in animal groups – mammals, reptiles, birds, etc. There are two great things about this – for children who are just learning to look stuff up for themselves, this can be a lot easier. Also, this will help children to better understand and learn the classifications of animals. Very cool!
The book also has over 1500 beautiful color illustrations and photographs. And it has one of my favorite features of kids books – those little cross reference boxes to help the children find related topics within the book.
Yep – those are two very good books! They get my bookworm seal of approval!
GO READ A BOOK!
My mom and my sister-in-law sent the kids my very favorite gifts ever – yep! Books!
What better gift can there possibly be? 
One of the books that Shawn got was called, The Black Tattoo.
I haven’t read the book, yet – but, it looks really neat!
And he really enjoyed it. And the part that has me so jazzed?
The cover! Yes, the cover! You open it up and it is a huge poster – merging the arts, you gotta love that!
