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Holiday Family Fun
This is my favorite time of the year. THE HOLIDAYS! In our family that means getting ready for Christmas. I remember as a little girl, over fifty years ago, the two months between Halloween and New...
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GROUNDHOG DAY
Today’s poems are from Year-Round Read-Aloud, Read-Along Rhymes: Celebrating Holidays and Seasons . Groundhog Day Last fall when it was getting cold The ground hog crawled into his hole To sleep all...
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Valentines for Family Fun
Family Fun with Valentines Making Valentines With a pink piece of paper and the scissors in my hand, I cut out a shape that your heart will understand. With a dash of shiny glitter and a...
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Family Fun with Kites and Pinwheels
It's time for one of my favorite poems from Year-Round Read-Aloud, Read-Along Rhymes: Celebrating Holidays and Seasons. I love it because it combines memories of my own childhood, and days spent with...
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Legend of the Leprechaun
My husband’s family on his father’s side comes from Ireland. So naturally, Read-Aloud, Read-Along Rhymes: Celebrating Holidays and Seasons had to include a poem for St. Patrick’s Day. My Lucky...
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On the First, Warm, Sunny Day…
Daffodils On the first warm, sunny day What did I see? Three tiny daffodils Too shy to look at me. In all the muddy, melting yard I saw only three Tiny yellow daffodils. But they did not see me. They...
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Mother’s Day: Make-it-yourself Memories
Mother’s Day Memories: Do you remember this time we went Camping and all the time we spent Finding a spot to put up each tent Next to the shade of a tree? It was Mother’s Day, 1989. In southern Utah,...
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A Long Line of Mothers
Folding Clothes My Mother and I play a game when I help her folding clothes. It makes the work go faster, and she told me that she knows That her own Mother played it, too, and her Grandma before,...
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Dream Summer: Get Ready for Fun!
Dream Summer Oh, a walking stick and a lunch in my pack And a summer morn on a mountain track. Or a ball and a bat and and summer day And a wide, green field and a game to play. Or a swimming pool in...
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Oh the Sights and the Sounds of a Summer Night!
Summer Night Oh the sights and the sounds of a summer night! When the long, hot day finally gives up its light. And the star-bright sky seems close enough to touch. Is there any other time that I love...
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It’s Still Summer — Let’s Enjoy it While We Can!
Last Day of Summer Walk When the summer grass turns from green to gold And black-eyed Susans line the road Where the lizard suns on a dusty rock I will take my last-day-of-summer walk. When the...
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Trick or Treat: Halloween Costumes on a Budget
Trick or Treat Trick-or-Treat! Trick-or-Treat! Give me something good to eat Or I'll scare you! I'm a witch; She's a ghost. Which one of us scares you most? On your doorstep, Calling...
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Free Halloween Treat for Fans of Mrs. Middlejoy!
Free eBook: Mrs. Middlejoy and the Haunted Churchyard I've been waiting for almost a year to be able to offer Mrs. Middlejoy and the Haunted Churchyard (A Church Mouse Halloween Story) FREE in the...
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