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Gift Guide: Books You’ll Want to Open

December 15, 2014 by Amy, Using Our Words 4 Comments

As a blogger, I’m constantly meeting really talented, ambitious writers. People who make me think in new ways, and inspire me to follow my dreams. So when I saw that my friend (from high school and now the blogosphere), Lizz of AmIAFunnyGirl.com, was highlighting all of her author friends, I thought it was brilliant. Because […]

Filed Under: featured, Tips & Ideas Tagged With: author, baby gift, blogger, bloggers, books, buying gifts, christmas, friends, gift guide, gift ideas, holidays, humor, parenting, perspective, writing

School’s Out for Summer

July 22, 2014 by Amy, Using Our Words 8 Comments

The other day I ran into a friend at my office (aka Starbucks). He asked what my kids were up to this summer and the subject of workbooks came up. I confessed, as I’m doing to each and every one of you here, that I don’t make my kids do one single bit of school […]

Filed Under: Common Sense Media, featured, Tips & Ideas Tagged With: apps, books, Common Sense Media, education, learning, music, reading, school, science, summer

Introducing Reverie by Christina Yother

July 6, 2014 by Amy, Using Our Words 2 Comments

I’ve written a bit about a roommate conversation that took place a couple years ago at BlogHer. You know, the one that brought Project: Underblog to life? Well, my dear friend, Christina shared other ideas and dreams over the course of those few days as well. And, as she showed by quickly creating and building […]

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3 Great Ways to Encourage Reading

June 11, 2014 by Amy, Using Our Words 6 Comments

I’m lucky. I have three kids who love to read (or be read to). Of course a huge part of that is that they live in a house filled with books. (Some people buy designer shoes, I buy beautifully bound paper.) I also like to think it’s because they see Lenny and me doing our […]

Filed Under: Common Sense Media, featured, Tips & Ideas, Uncategorized Tagged With: books, Common Sense Media, love of reading, reading, tips

Give a Book, Get a Book – More Disney Junior Magic

April 30, 2014 by Amy, Using Our Words 1 Comment

While my family went into Disney Social Media Moms Celebration as pseudo-Disneyland newbies, we were certainly no strangers to Disney. In fact, when we heard that there was going to be a special breakfast hosted by Disney Junior on Saturday morning, we decided the rest of my family would head south to meet me sooner […]

Filed Under: Tips & Ideas Tagged With: books, community, Disney Junior, Disney Social Media Moms, doing good, Get a Book, Give a Book, literacy, reading

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