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Read Aloud Thursday Button!

For all of you Read Aloud Thursday participants (past, present, and future!), we now have a blog button!  Here’s the html code for it: I can’t wait to see this beautiful button, created by Abigail of A Source of Joy Graphic Design, around the book blogosphere!

I Read It!::The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

I’ve been plotting and planning to participate in the I Read It! carnival at 5 Minutes for Books ever since I first learned of its existence.  I had a few ideas in the back of my mind:  should I read The Scarlet Pimpernel?  should I try one of the many Christian fiction novels highlighted in [...]

Friday’s Vintage Find::Stone Soup by Marcia Brown

Somewhere in the recesses of my mind I have a faint memory of my grandmother referring to a particular soup or stew she concocted as “stone soup.”  Perhaps that is why I enjoy this story so much–I associate it with pleasant memories of my jolly-but-cantankerous elderly grandmother, who also happened to be a very good [...]

New digs and a Read Aloud Thursday button!

Oh, am I excited!  I’ve wanted to give Hope Is the Word a facelift for a while, and when I came across the work of Abigail of A Source of Joy Graphic Design, I thought she might be just the one to help me in this little endeavor.  Didn’t she do a fantastic job?!?!? Not only [...]

Read Aloud Thursday

I think if Lulu could pick one book that she has absolutely loved lately, this one would be it.  Princess Pigsty, written by Cornelia Funke and illustrated by Kerstin Meyer, is a great read for the preschool princess-wannabe.  Isabella is a princess who gets fed up with her royal life and decides she wants to [...]

The Importance of Stories

Living daily with my own would-be Mary and Laura brought this beautiful post by Ann Voskamp even closer to home for me.  Read and ruminate.

What’s on My Nightstand for April

With blogging time at a premium, I almost skipped What’s On Your Nightstand this month, but I just couldn’t bear to not participate.  I think I’m hooked.  : ) I will, however, try to make this brief, especially since I still haven’t finished Les Miserables, so really, that should be all that’s on my nightstand [...]

Bloggy absenteeism

We had a lovely Friday and Saturday at a Bible quiz meet with some of the children from our church (at our state convention center, pictured above).  Then, on Sunday, it was the usual Sunday School, Sunday worship service, grab a bite for lunch, get the girls down to rest, back to church for Easter [...]

Don’t mind me. . .

I’m just trying out a new look here at Hope Is the Word!

Read Aloud Thursday

I live with my own personal weather man (he can apprise me of tomorrow’s weather in thirty seconds flat, no matter where we are, thanks to his Blackberry) and two weather girls.  Lulu and Louise often want me to read the weather forecast that is printed on the second page of our local paper over [...]

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