This short, sweet, simple poetry project will help those you love to know you are thinking of them from afar. Choose a poem, read it aloud, and send it via text or email to a friend or family member. Allow each child to choose his/her own poem to send. (Even the youngest children can choose…
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Share a Story: Creative Family Advent Day 2
Have your children read a story, record it, and text it to a friend or family member today! Ask them to send you a story back. Kind of like pen pals, but with audio. This is what we are doing for Day 2 of The Creative Family Advent. I love hearing these little voices. Maybe…
The Daily Turn #5: Grandma
Today is my Grandma’s birthday And also the anniversary of her death. As if she’d planned it– To live exactly 98 years and then Retire from this life And the weary work of wearing A failing body To do all the things she had missed: Traveling to new places, Visiting with childhood friends, Laughing with…