Early Arrivals

I spend what seems like a lot of time in the car.  My kid’s schools are in opposite corners of my world which makes for a 45 minute round trip twice a day 3 days a week.  I pay attention to the road but it can be a little boring and I find my eyes wandering to the sides and the sights especially stopped at a red light or when behind one of those yellow kid-carrying vehicles.  This is what I have been seeing for a long while…

But then one day recently I saw this…

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Pregnancy Test Trees and a Pickle Baby

Pregnancy Test Tree

I have been meaning to write my child-birth stories.

It is on my long list of blog topics.  I really love hearing birth stories and enjoy telling mine.  And when I saw this: “Journey to Motherhood with Ricki Lake”, I thought now’s as good a time as any!  My first child-birth story:

Pregnancy Test Trees and a Pickle Baby is posted today on Blogher if you want to go check it out!

Books are not the only way to share stories

Freebie Fridays:  Printable templates for “The Mitten” storytelling props

"The Mitten" shadow puppets

Today is the second installment of my wildly popular Freebie Fridays!  Last Friday I shared a downloadable Valentine’s Desktop.  If you missed it, check it out!  With all the downloading going on it practically crashed my site!

Storytelling…

Books are definitely not the only way to share stories.  People have been telling stories much longer than there has been books.   Continue reading

The Gift Girl (a fairy-tale)

Once upon a time there lived a girl who dreamed things into being.  When she was just a baby her parents started finding something new in her crib every morning. Continue reading

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