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| 1.2.23 (we did a little seed experiment to see which one would germinate first - the winner was the wheat! it sprouted roots and they just kept growing!) |
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| 1.2.23 (we had a fun hygge challenge at the library last month and I am a fan!) |
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| 1.2.23 (just in case you were wondering what hygge is . . . ) |
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| 1.2.23 (that’s exactly 60 books getting checked out. I had told Gregg when I was headed to the library that I felt all out of sorts only having 36 books out on my card. Well, this has me feeling much more comfortable.) |
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| 1.4.23 (We all really enjoyed this magical adventure set in Denmark on Christmas and the days following. It was fun to read a story set there after learning about the country during our Jan Brett Christmas school month. And we learned about a new magical creature called a nisse, which is similar to a gnome or a brownie, from what we can tell.) |
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| 1.6.23 (I don't know why I snapped a pic of toady's puzzle, but here it is.) |
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| 1.10.23 (I had a lot of fun flipping through this new cookbook from the library and dreaming of trying all kinds of new meals . . . that have yet to happen ;) |
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| 1.10.23 (again, haven't really screenshotted pics of my wordles lately, but here's another) |
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| 1.11.23 (Lots of interesting info in these books, including the phrase “subnivean zone” which is below the snow and above the ground where lots of critters live during the winter.) |
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| 1.11.23 (my first prize from the January adult winter reading challenge! So nerdy.) |
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| 1.12.23 (this is Cal's puzzle) |
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| 1.12.23 (this is my puzzle) |
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| 1.13.23 (We had to get this one in ebook form since the library didn’t have a physical copy. It goes right along with the subnivean zone books I shared before (plus one I didn’t take a pic of but we have long loved called Over and Under the Snow). This one was interesting because it is a poem, but then has a little nonfiction tidbit one each page, plus lengthy backmatter describing hibernation, migration, and toleration. Loved it.) |
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| 1.13.23 (Just finished this very wintery read (I’m sensing a theme here, and it’s working for me right now!). It’s based on a Russian fairy tale of an older childless couple who build a snow girl one winter night and then she comes alive. But this book is more than a fairy tale... it’s about the hard life of homesteading in the 20s in Alaska. Plenty of pain (physical and emotional) for them to work through, but also hope and joy and beauty. It was lovely.) |
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| 1.14.23 (M'Liza the Minecraft-loving librarian had been asking for a while to set up a special time when Cal and Sam could come in and be "beta testers" for her on the switch to play multiplayer Minecraft. The day finally came and the kids had a blast, even if the multiplayer feature wasn't working quite yet.) |
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| 1.16.23 (I felt like baking, and it was MLK Jr. day so we had time. Turned out Cal tested positive for Covid that day, too, so all kinds of free time opened up for us!) |
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| 1.16.23 (since our plans to go bowling with friends got canceled due to Cal's sickness (she wasn't even that sick!) we decided to try take out from the new scallywag grill where Pat's used to be + watch Star Wars.) |
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| 1.17.23 (I checked out almost every MLK Jr book that was available in my library and these were the standouts that we read this morning for history. Those two big picture books (Martin’s Big Words and Martin and Mahalia) are the cream of the crop for sure!) |
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| 1.17.23 (a new favorite January tradition (I'm so happy I got this table for Christmas!): we've had a puzzle in progress non-stop all month and we spend about 15-30 minutes every morning listening to an audiobook and working on the puzzle (and it's school!). We'll putter on a puzzle at other times of the day, too, but I love the book + puzzle school time and I will be keeping it around! (we need some new puzzles, though!)) |
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| 1.18.23 ((I hate when my app does this... looks so dumb!) But the book is great! This was our first puzzle + listen book. We’ve been having quite the winter ourselves, but nothing compared to The Long Winter. Holy Moley!) |
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| 1.18.23 (we've been learning Home on the Range during our morning time this year and whenever I sing that song I think of this movie: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. It was a staple at our house growing up. I finally checked it out from the library so the kids could understand my comments and jokes during our Home on the Range singing, and they loved it, too. (And I can still sing almost every word of every song in this movie!)) |
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| 1.19.23 (We checked out a few books to go along with our reading of The Long Winter, and one of them had the recipe for Almanzo's Buckwheat Pancakes that were described in the book. We even tried them for dinner one night!) |
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| 1.19.23 (verdict: they were okay. I don't know that I'll make them very often, but it was fun to try something new relating to a book we loved.) |
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| 1.21.23 (we got to celebrate Cooper's birthday in Logan sledding with the Elwoods. Then we came back to Gma and Gpa's and had a chinese new year feast. This is the only pic I took that day - of Zoe feeding Maggie her dinner. Ha!) |
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| 1.22.23 (I remember my mom liking this one (or maybe it was one of her “books that stayed with her” from that list that we all wrote on Facebook way back when a decade or more ago ... which maybe is the same thing and maybe isn’t? 🤷🏻♀️). So when I spotted it during one of my DI raids, I snatched it up and it’s been sitting on my shelf ever since. I decided to pick it up this month for our library’s newbery challenge this month, since it’s one I haven’t ever read before. And wow! For such a slim book (less than 200 pages) it really packs a punch! There are so many emotional moments, happy and sorrowful, exciting and guilt-inducing - so many feelings written so beautifully! I really loved it and the characters and even though it is predictable and ties up with a pretty bow, it was such a delightful read!) |
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| 1.23.23 (just a fun poem from one of the poetry books we read this morning, called Peaceful Pieces and the art is all in quilts!) |
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| 1.23.23 (another poem from a picture book from school; this one is White Snow Bright Snow) |
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| 1.23.23 (Callie and I just finished reading this one together (my third time at least and her first and we both loved it!). It’s funny and sciencey and a little bit coming of age. And it was just a coincidence that it scores some points in our newbery reading challenge this month, too!) |
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| 1.24.23 (for Sam's math lesson, he got to make up his own dream schedule for the day (we were doing a time unit) and I just had to save this because it cracks me up) |
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| 1.30.23 (we've been doing a microbiology study for science. The kids are totally grossed out!) |
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| 1.30.23 (but I'm loving it! ha!) |
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| 1.30.23 (I follow a couple of librarian bloggers, and leading up to this month’s ALA youth media awards (aka Caldecott and Newbery and all kinds of other medals) they were sharing their picks for awards. I decided to check out as many as I could just in case they happened to win. Well, the big reveal was today, and, drumroll... three that we already had checked out were Caldecott winners! Hot Dog got the medal and Knight Owl and Choosing Brave were honors. And they are all wonderful and totally worthy of their awards!) |
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| 1.30.23 (Here are some others that my librarian bloggers thought had a chance of winning. They didn’t, but they’re still awesome.) |
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| 1.30.23 (And these are the nonfiction picture books that were suggested as possible medal winners, but didn’t come away with any prizes this time. Oh well. Still worth checking out!) |
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| 1.31.23 (Brrrrr!!!) |
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| 1.31.23 (I first heard about this book when the author was on Alan Alda’s Clear+Vivid podcast. It was an entertaining and thought provoking/mind bending conversation and this book was more of the same. Much more. It’s definitely an accessible way to be introduced to philosophy, but it made my brain hurt more than once! Haha. It took me a couple months to get through, but I’m glad I stuck with it, chipping away a chapter or so at a time.) |
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| 1.28.23 (out of order, date wise, but I'm just going to keep them all together here at the end - this is my friend Jessie's mom holding her brand new grandson, Jonah, Jessie's baby. Such a fun thing for me to see her as a grandma at last!) |
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| 1.30.23 (here's baby Jonah Austin Wussow) |
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| 1.29.23 (and here's mama Jessie with her sweet little guy - so happy for her!) |
Every other round up here (whew!):
2022: Dec | Nov | June | May | Apr | Mar | Feb | Jan (I got really behind last year, but I'm working on catching up!)
2020: Dec | Nov | Sep | Aug | July | June | May | Apr | Mar Quar + Mar | Feb | Jan
2019: Dec | Nov | Oct | Sep | Aug | July | June | May | Apr | Mar | Feb | Jan
2018: Dec | Nov | Oct | Sept | Aug | July | June | May | Apr | Mar | Feb | Jan
2017: Dec | Nov | Oct | Sept | Aug | July | June | May | Apr | Mar | Feb | Jan
2019: Dec | Nov | Oct | Sep | Aug | July | June | May | Apr | Mar | Feb | Jan
2018: Dec | Nov | Oct | Sept | Aug | July | June | May | Apr | Mar | Feb | Jan
2017: Dec | Nov | Oct | Sept | Aug | July | June | May | Apr | Mar | Feb | Jan
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