Callie Feyen

On the way to swimming lessons yesterday, Hadley and Harper came up with the “Fast Talking Company.” “If you’ve lost your voice, we will give you a potion so you can speak again,” Harper explained. We drove down Father Hurley across Wisteria towards the pool, and as soon as we got on the other side of the railroad tracks, I… View Post

The first page that Hadley and Harper completed on their Summer Reading Journals, was the “All About Me” page.  And really, who wouldn’t want to design their own superhero cape? But I couldn’t wait to have them try their hand at the Illustrate It page. This is the one where you take a book you read, draw an object that… View Post

Legend has it that a woman in our church bakes muffins every morning. I write “legend” because it’s been years since I heard she does this, and I only heard it once. It was during a weekly bible study for women held at the church I attend, when this woman, I’m going to call her Maggie, placed fresh muffins neatly… View Post

What’s that? You kinda sorta like the Summer Reading Journals, but you wish there was something for the smaller readers? No problem. You still get an All-About-Me page. Chocklute milk and recesses.  All the recesses. You get to make a Superhero cape. Harper’s has to do with reading. She learned to, and fell in love with reading this year, thanks… View Post

What is it that Meg Ryan says in You’ve Got Mail about what happens to you when you’ve been marked by a book? Something about being changed forever. I can’t remember exactly. What about a little scrapbook for you to capture that change? You have a page to make a collage and logo about yourself (mine is a coffee cup;… View Post