Start a pot of overnight oats tonight for an easy New Year’s breakfast tomorrow and get your year off to a healthy start! Read about it on my post for Honest To Nod today. Happy New Year, everyone!!!
winter break activities
What to do with winter break underway--read my post on Honest To Nod today. Hooray for vacation and flapjacks!
holiday books and traditions
With everyone home from school, this week is great for reading books together! Check out my post on Honest To Nod today.
birds of bethlehem
One we’ve been reading lately: Birds of Bethlehem. “Every morning, the birds of Bethlehem gathered in the field to glean any corn that might be left from the harvest. This winter morning was different.” Tomie dePaola has published a superb collection of holiday books in his lifetime, and Birds of Bethlehem is one of them. It’s a bird’s perspective of the birth of Christ, told simply and illustrated beautifully in a warm, sincere palette.
Christmas in Noisy Village
What we’re reading this week: Christmas in Noisy Village, by Astrid Lindgren and by Ilon Wikland, which has illustrated excerpts from the rustic Swedish classic. Noisy Village is comprised of three farms—North Farm, Middle Farm and South Farm—and earned its name “because there are so many children around making noise all the time.” Reading about all the goings-on in Noisy Village will make you long to travel to the children’s snowy Scandinavian landscape and make gingersnap pigs with them. Avery’s favorite part was when everyone headed to Britta and Anna’s house for a Christmas party which included bobbing for apples and noshing on fruit cake and tarts!