I have always loved giving puzzles as gifts. We have tubs of big wooden puzzles and boxes of puzzles. When my kids were toddlers and preschoolers, Melissa and Doug puzzles like shapes, upper and lower case letters, numbers, hands and feet, vehicles, and animals were in huge rotation. As they got older, geography puzzles became…
I’ve long enjoyed Mary Stewart’s gothic romances. I purchased and read a lot of them around the time I was in high school, and have occasionally revisited them. Several of the Hive’s 52 Books in 52 Weeks group recently picked up The Ivy Tree and some struggled with it. Because it is one of the…
Games are a fantastic way to learn about the world we live in and the location of various places. We have a lot of Geography games that we enjoy. The first is The Scrambled States of America game. There’s a related book by the same name that I kind of hate, but I do like…
I don’t have a quote for you today, do you have one for me? I do have a question for you, though. Which of Little Women’s March sisters did you wish to be when you first read it and why? My husband thinks most women would choose to be Meg while I aver that most…
I read a free-for Kindle book, Susanna and the Spy by Anna Elliot, and decided to try the sequel, London Calling. In the story, Susanna calls upon her Aunt Ruth to help her move the plot along reside in London and find her friend, James. Aunt Ruth, who conveniently knows everyone necessary and can afford…
I don’t know if you can tell from these three weeks of my series, but my kids love logic games and toys (they also love logic workbooks). They enjoy solving the puzzle. Today, some of our favorite games: Qwirkle is a hands-down family favorite. Each player tries to get six tiles in a row of…
I finished the currently published St. Cyr books and began a new to me Georgette Heyer book – The Reluctant Widow – that is rather more delving into human nature than I generally associate with her books. A few quotes: “There are some men, ma’am, who have such twisted natures that they cannot see virtue…