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Frankie’s 20-Week Update

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Anyone else as excited as I am to pull out (and add to) the CHRISTMAS book collection?! 🎄❄️🎅🏻🐫

Some pretty major breakthroughs during this past year and particularly the last week have made my 28th trip around the sun an eventful and memorable one. The one to come is going to be so.different. than each one before. I’ve never been so excited for what the infinite future holds. 💫 #newyear #newseason #newwoman #awakening #28thbirthday

g r o u n d i n g —thank you, @radiantbyliz!

Piggybacking on yesterday’s post...here’s WHY I intend for our copies of the classics to become heirlooms, and why we are already introducing Arlo to them at the tender age of three. It’s not that I’m a nerd. I mean, I totally am, but there’s more to it than that! 😉 As my friend and legendary literacy leader Tabatha Roach put it so succinctly... Classics do the following for our children on a level that most books do not: - Build character and confidence - Teach about life and morals - Improve social skills - Create depth in critical thinking - Grow vocabulary at a higher level Books are magic, my friends. ✨ Don’t let any child you know grow up untouched by the literary works that have survived the centuries.

This room is as heirloom-packed and sentimental as can be...just as a three-year-old’s space should be. ☺️ Arlo’s uncle Conrad made his bed, his aunt Beth painted the art above it, and his quilt was hand-sewn by his great-great-great grandma (my side). The little rocking chair was bought by his great-grandma for his mama when I was his size, and his babydoll and a few of his books were hers too. His barn and tractor were his papa’s, as well as the art on the wall drawn by his Amish great-grandfather. Caleb and I bought the vintage dog at an antique shop on our first anniversary, since we both remember playing with one like it when we were little...the first item we ever bought for the children we dreamt of eventually having. And the few books and toys that we bought new? Sure to BECOME heirlooms. Especially our Usborne illustrated classics—the read-alouds Caleb and Arlo share before bed—and Oliver Mouse from Hazel Village and his tent and sleeping bag, gifted by aunties Krista and Mindy. You all know me as a minimalist, and it’s true that I’ve purged our things ruthlessly over the years—especially all the “sentimental” things in storage, but the beauty of that is this result: all of our most precious things are out on display and used and enjoyed daily, rather than being stored away. The home we bought this past spring really has no room for that kind of thing (no attic, basement, garage, or spare room—and only four small closets) so it’s a good thing I’d spent the five years prior whittling down our “storage” to two boxes: one full of baby things for Arlo’s future siblings, and one half-full of a few more things I’m still hanging onto...a couple mementoes from our wedding and a few papers and things from my school years. Our stuff should serve us, not the other way around. This paradigm shift has revolutionized our lives.

Finally getting around to actually putting some nails in the walls in this new place! This piece that @lachlanandlenny did for us is still one of my favorite things ever!

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Do any of these words remind you of someone specific? Tell me (or tag them)! 😇 Still one of my tippy-top favorite books in the shop. A beautiful coffee table book and perfect gift for any word/language/world/travel lover! #ourhomelibrary #readergeneration #bookstakeyouplaces #bookstagram #languagelover #languagestudy #untranslatablewords #kanemillerbooks #usbornebooksandmore #usborneconsultant #usbornebooksandmoreconsultant #coffeetablebook #learnsomethingneweveryday #alwayslearning #hungerforknowledge #bookobsessed #bookloversunite #childrensbooks #childrensbookstagram #bookart #readmore #readeveryday #raisingreaders

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