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2023 Word of the Year
Happy New Year, readers! I can’t believe it’s 2023! I love these little opportunities to reflect, reorganize, and reset for a new year. Honestly, I feel the same way at the start of a new school year even though I haven’t been in school for years. And while I have…
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2022 Blogging Goals
I’m not sure if I can even believe it, but I started blogging late in 2012. And I’ve been steadily blogging for the past nine years. With over 3,300 posts, I wanted to take a little bit of time at the end of this year to really think about where…
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2022 Word of the Year
So, I tried this last year with the word – “self-care” and I’ll be honest, it did not go well. Work kind of took over a lot of my life. We were so short-staffed, that I ended up working a lot of extra hours in the evenings and on weekends…
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Resolutions for 2019
I love the idea of setting goals and resolutions for 2019, but I’m one of those people, who do really well for a short while and then by the end of the year, I don’t actually remember what my goals were! I’m going to set a few specific goals this…
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Reflections on 2018
2018 was the year I spent reading picture books! I reviewed a picture book on my blog every single day of 2018 – that’s 365 picture book reviews. If you missed any, check out my complete list of titles on the blog or on Pinterest. It was something I was…
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AtoZ Blogging Challenge – Noon Year's Eve Party
Program Name: Noon Year’s Eve Countdown What: This is an adorable idea I borrowed from another library as a way for families to celebrate the New Year at a countdown at noon instead of midnight so that the little ones could be awake to celebrate. We’ve done this a couple of times…
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Back to School – Middle Grade Edition
Back to school is always exciting and slightly scary time for kids and you can find gobs and gobs of picture books discussing the new school year, but it’s a lot more difficult to find titles for middle grade students getting ready for a new school building, a new school…
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year Readers! “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful and don’t forget to make some art – write or draw or build or sing or live as only…
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Resolve to Rock
Storytime Underground is encouraging us, as professionals, to make goals for the upcoming year. I love the start of the new year – fresh and ready to work toward some new goals. So, without further ado, some of my goals for the new year. 1.) Focus on my blog. Last…
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New Year’s Resolutions
Every year, I, like so many others, jump on the resolutions bandwagon only to fore go my resoultions a few weeks into the new year. This year after some serious consideration, I’ve decided that I’m going to take a break from resolutions and continue to do the things that I…
