An unexpected vacation and a milestone birthday were the high points of last month. I hope you enjoy reading this post and maybe you’ll find an interesting recommendation or two as well.
Read
The kids and I just finished reading The Silver Chair at bedtime. Any suggestions for a good readaloud for a break from Narnia before we read The Last Battle?
I’ve been looking through TIME’s list of The 100 Best Children’s Books of All Time. It’s nice to see that we have read the majority of them, but I was able order some of the ones we’ve never read from the library. So far the kids have enjoyed Tikki Tikki Tembo, Millions of Cats, and Tuesday.
It was adorable to watch our two year old do the poses in Sleepy Little Yoga.
Eat
We got this Dorie Greenspan book from the library again so Eleanor could bake the double-decker salted caramel cake for her tenth birthday!
Do
Andrew surprised me with plane tickets to visit a good friend in Alabama for a weekend at the beginning of March! Highlights were lots of time to talk, browsing a flea market, swimming in a cave spring and the Gulf of Mexico, visiting my friend’s church and ladies’ Sunday School class, playing Scrabble, visiting her bakery in the back of a lovely cafe, shopping at a Guatamalan shop and a pecan company, and going out for seafood.
Watch
We finished watching the first season of The Paradise. There are only two seasons and we plan to continue. (It’s a period drama based on a novel by Emile Zola [1840-1902] — have you read anything by him?)
Meditate
“And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.”
– Galatians 6:9
I don’t remember how old your children are, but maybe Incident at Hawks Hill by Eckert would be nice for a break from Narnia. Another one we really enjoyed was Shiloh by Naylor.
Thanks for the suggestions! I haven’t heard of the Eckert title. We decided to start My Zoo Family, a memoir published in 1953 that’s been on my shelf for years if not decades. I will file away the other ideas since it can be hard to think of books the kids haven’t read yet.
Have you read The Cat Club books by Esther Averill? Entertaining and informative.
Not sure why I missed this comment earlier, but thanks for leaving it. I just ordered Jenny and the Cat Club through interlibrary loan and also Incident at Hawks Hill (apparently that one has a sequel too!).