Category: Grandchildren
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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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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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