November abounds with opportunities to practice gratitude, gather with loved ones, embrace coziness, enjoy good food, and more. Here’s a November bucket list to offer you and your loved ones fun ways to connect and make memories this month. Enjoy! November Bucket List – Thanksgiving Ideas November Bucket List – Special Day Ideas November Bucket…
How do you decorate after Christmas? Taking down the tree and all the decorations can be a bittersweet process. On one hand, it’s nice getting your space back to normal. On the other, with the merriment and music and magic of the holiday season behind us, you’re left with…January. The store endcaps jump straight from…
The trees are bare, the temperatures are dropping, and soon the ground will be covered with a blanket of snow. It’s time for some winter hygge ideas to make the season cozy and pleasurable. What is Hygge? The Danish concept of hygge (pronounced hoo-guh) doesn’t have an exact translation in English. In The Little Book…
This week, Minneapolis has been gray and cloudy every day. So often our moods reflect the weather outside; right now, as I gaze out the living room window at flurries and a sky devoid of color, it’s hard not to feel lethargic and blah. That’s why this November, I’m trying to be intentional about bringing…
This past Sunday was one of those blah November days that made me just want to snuggle on the couch with a quilt, a cup of tea, and a good book. Sounds dreamy, doesn’t it? But certain little boys–three of them, to be exact–were not gonna let that happen. If I wanted some time to…
Picture books are one of our favorite ways to mark the transition to a new season and build up anticipation for upcoming holidays. There’s something irresistible about having stories we read only at certain times of year. You know that scarcity part of our brain that lights up when we see a product labeled “limited…
Earlier this week I told you how our annual leaf walk was a bust. That the boys weren’t into it and that not even the jauntiest of my rhymes was able to save the day. Not a big deal, right? Just a short neighborhood stroll where we’d gathered a few leaves and then stopped. Who…
Today is World Octopus Day! A few years ago, we checked out a book from the library called Octopuses One to Ten by Ellen Jackson. A rhymed counting book with factual sidebars, this text launched our fascination with the ocean’s eight-armed wonders. Did you know octopuses have nine brains, one for each arm and one…
