From My (Gingerbread) House to Yours

My sister and nephew working on their Gingy House

I’m sending wishes for the happiest of holidays and a healthy and prosperous 2011 to all of my blogging friends and visitors!  Your friendship, comments, kindness, and support were really appreciated during this trying year.  I’m looking forward to wonderful things in 2011 on your blogs and mine!  Merry Holidays and Happy New Year! I’ll [...]

The Reading Cult for Kids: Scholastic Books

scholastic

I have vivid recollections of my six years in elementary school.  A few are traumatic–hysterics on the first day of kindergarten after being pried from my mother’s arms and deposited aboard a menacing, yellow bus; a sadistic first grade teacher who sported a towering beehive (in ’81) and took pleasure in punishing disorganized little me by dumping the contents of my desk on to my [...]