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Our Favorite Books of 2025
In keeping with our family tradition, we present the best books we read in 2025… I read 65 books this year. (Goodreads thinks I only read 63, but they aren’t counting the two times I read my oldest daughter’s manuscript!) For the most part, I read on my Kindle Paperwhite via Kindle Unlimited, Libby through…
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Quality Children’s Book Recommendations You Can Rely On
We sat around the table the other day swapping book titles with cousins we hadn’t seen in years. Our children share a love of many of the same series and authors, but my oldest still filled both sides of a sheet of paper with hastily scribbled titles for them to check out. That conversation got…
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the tradition of an annual family photo & letter
It’s been a tradition in my family for three generations… Grandpa Marvin and Grandma Mary started sending out a annual Christmas card picture the year their first child was born. I’ve heard that Grandma often included handwritten notes in each, until she finally began sending the same photocopied letter to everyone sometime in the 1980’s….







