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Thankful at Thanksgiving—and All Year Long
As the Thanksgiving season wraps us in its familiar warmth, I find myself reflecting on gratitude—not just for the holiday itself, but for the blessings that carry us through every season of the year. Thanksgiving reminds us to pause, breathe, and appreciate the people and moments that make our lives meaningful. But gratitude, I’ve learned,…
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Raising Six Tiny Heroes
Blog about raising six children and keeping your standards low enough to survive and thrive in these circumstances. Finding socks, combing hair, piles of toys, 15-minute pick-up each day with kids helping, laughing until you cry, four car seats at one time, four in diapers, muddy shoes through the house. Connect to writing children’s books…
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The Story Behind the Story
Long before our story had a cover, pages, or pictures, it was simply words shared aloud. Reading it to our grandchildren—watching their faces light up, their questions tumble out, and their imaginations take flight—was a reminder that the heart of every book begins in moments like these.
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Storytime Snoozes:
A blog post about parenting five children and reading to them every night. It is an adventure that changes with every story read to bring my children up to be good, well-read adults.
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The Legacy of Reading
Tiny Heroes and the Gift from Grandma and Grandpa Sheedy Some legacies are built with bricks and mortar. Others are built with bedtime stories, well-loved pages, and the sound of a voice reading by lamplight. Ours? It’s the latter — a legacy lovingly passed down from Grandma and Grandpa Sheedy. Long before there were books…
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From Empty Nest to Full Heart: Writing a Children’s Book
Becoming an empty nester has been a bittersweet chapter in my life. The quiet that once seemed like a luxury suddenly felt like a void. After years of bustling routines, packing lunches, noisy pizza nights, bath-and-hair wash nights, and bedtime stories, the stillness left behind felt jarring. But in that quiet space, I found something…
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Taking the Leap: Deciding to Publish Our First Children’s Book
For as long as I can remember, stories have lived in my head. Some were inspired by bedtime tales I heard as a child as well as while reading stories to my own six children. Other inspiration came from quiet observations of the world around me—like a squirrel’s frantic dash across a park bench or…
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Tales & Adventures Blog
Tiny Heroes, Big Adventures: A Grandma’s Story There’s a special kind of magic in holding a book you wrote and published in your hands—but that magic grows ten times bigger when you’re reading it to the very grandchildren who live inside its pages. Their eyes sparkled the moment they saw their names in print. “That’s…
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Once Upon a Time…
Once Upon a Time… A Mother and Son’s Journey to Write Their First Children’s Book Once upon a time, in a cozy home filled with laughter and love, a mother and her children embarked on an extraordinary adventure. They were not knights, dragons, or wizards—but they did have something just as magical: the power of…
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