by Jamie Bills | Feb 1, 2023 | Ideas
Here is a simple bookish garland to enhance your book display shelves, bookcases, mantles, or wherever your little book-loving heart desires. And the best part is that it is SUPER SIMPLE. In this post, I will use the small ghost and snowflake patterns as my example,...
by Jamie Bills | May 27, 2022 | Ideas
When I had three girls under five, the thought of big summer vacations seemed very daunting, but I still wanted my girls to feel like they were having fun summer adventures. This was when I came up with the idea for summer passports. Make a list of...
by Jamie Bills | Mar 18, 2022 | Ideas
At a used library book sale, I found RUSSELL AND THE LOST TREASURE by Rob Scotton. In this story, Russell the sheep comes across a treasure map and works to find the treasure chest. He is slightly disappointed to discover it only contains a camera. Despite his...
by Jamie Bills | Feb 10, 2022 | Ideas
My daughter, Kelsey, begged for a chance to hold a book club with her friends. Because we are already busy running around most nights of the week AND there are still a lot of COVID concerns in our area, we decided to hold the book club via Zoom. And because it is...
by Jamie Bills | Nov 21, 2020 | Ideas
*Updated November 2021* Let me introduce you to my box. About 10 years ago I decided to organize our Christmas season nightly activities. I gathered our Christmas stories and activities and made a plan of when we would read those stories and do those activities. What...
by Jamie Bills | Sep 20, 2020 | Ideas
If you are ready to teach your little one to read, or you are just preparing for the future, I would LOVE to share what worked for me with my girls. I TOTALLY understand that all kids are DIFFERENT but I think the more options you have and tools you have in your...