Friday's Are So Busy These Days

Fridays are one of my favorite days of the week. It means my family will soon be able to spend the day together (usually). It's just the 4 of us but we like it that way. There is something about the comfort of having us all under the same roof even if at times we are all doing our own thing. The time comes soon enough when one of our chicks will fly the coop and I appreciate each moment with them.

My question is:

If given a choice this summer, to go absolutely anywhere, where would you spend the summer?

I would spend the summer in Connecticut at a shoreline bed and breakfast. My kids have never been to the beach and I think it is time. 

Seriously, are the Littlest Pet Shops not the cutest things to take pictures of? Look at that face.

I found this awesome meme a week ago. Feed Me Books Friday is a fantastic idea and I plan on participate each week. Instilling the love of reading starts early. I have seen pictures of myself laying in my crib, sleeping with a book over my face as young as 9 months old. There are also pictures of my son holding a book open while sleeping as young as 6 months old.  My mom was a big reader and my sisters and I always saw her with a book. The three of us are huge book readers. Connection? Maybe, maybe not. But reading is good and I read to my kids every chance I get. In fact, if they came to me with a book while I was vacuuming (the cleaning can wait), I stopped the vacuum in the middle of the floor to read.

Book Description

Fancy Nancy Clancy is so poetic, even her name rhymes. And with limericks, couplets, free verse, and more, poetry is plenty fancy! So when her teacher Ms. Glass gives Nancy and her classmates an assignment to come up with their very own poems, Nancy is determined to write one that is superb. 

My daughter is very creative so I can only imagine what she will come up with when she can finally write.

Fancy Nancy is a great role model for kids. I love that she is not afraid to be smart!

There is one part of the book where she tells us how her teacher shows them how to make a poet-tree (get it Poetry?). Each branch will have a leaf with a poem from the students. They also create poems using the first letter of their name to create words that describe them. Goddess has been walking around doing this for a day now! S-Sister is one of them