Category: class

• World Book Night

  It’s World Book Night and I’m a proud book giver. I got a jump on my giving so the twenty copies of Bridge to Terabithia that I had are already gone, thanks to an afternoon visit to a local elementary school. When I drove around the block, looking for the entrance to the parking lot, […]

  Carrie Dalby

  April 23, 2014

  banned books, class, friends, Geeks, inspiration, Katherine Paterson, library, LIFE, memories, middle grade, READING, Terabithia, WRITING

• Literary Tree

  Our homeschooling plans have taken a literary turn this month. In a fit of Pinterest inspiration, I purchased a tree kit from the local teacher supply store. Isn’t it cute? Now, for every book the kids read independently (or with little help) they get to write the title on a leaf and add it to […]

  Carrie Dalby

  July 21, 2013

  books, childhood, children, class, DECORATING, family, homeschooling, inspiration, kids, literature, motherhood, novels, parenting, summer, trees

• Mommies and Politics

      It appears there’s been a flare-up in the war between SAHM and working moms. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/ann-romney-calls-stay-home-mom-controversy-early/story?id=16150121 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/under-god/post/ann-romney-stay-at-home-mom-debate-mormons-react/2012/04/13/gIQAJIBmFT_blog.html And my favorite out of the recent stories: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-ann-romney-20120413,0,7757482.story I’ve been a working mom but more often a stay-at-home mom. I now consider myself a work-from-home mommy, though I haven’t sold/published anything for more than a year […]

  Carrie Dalby

  April 18, 2012

  bullies, class, CURRENT EVENTS, family, homeschooling, judgments, money, motherhood, parenting, politics, vote

• Middle School Blues

  Saturday, February 4, 2012 Middle School Blues The years I spent in middle school were terrific and terrible. I was trying to find my style and express myself—the slightly pudgy, tall geek posing as a rebel. (Yes, it carried over into high school, too. And adulthood, minus the rebel part.) And no, I didn’t fool […]

  Carrie Dalby

  February 5, 2012

  bullies, bullying, class, Geeks, high school, middle school, moving, San Diego, Santa Cruz, school, teens