Homeschool Blog Awards

Hsbanominee_1And the nominees are…a whole bunch of people, and I’m one of them (in the Homeschooling Mom Blog category). Voting has begun for the 2005 Homeschool Blogger Awards. You can place your vote here through December 26.

My favorite thing about these awards is how many wonderful sites I’m discovering by exploring the nominees in various categories. Like this one in the “Best Homeschool Family Blog” category. Wow.

P.S. Hey Andrea—I love the nifty nominee button! Kudos!

In Case You Missed This in May

A long while back I wrote about how extremely thrilled we were—thanks to the help of Lesley Austin—to reconnect with the work of a favorite storyteller, the great Jay O’Callahan. A fragment of his story, “Raisins,” had stuck in my head for some twenty years, and Lesley recognized it from Jay’s Little Heroes tape, which has been Beanie’s most frequent naptime request ever since I jubilantly ushered it into our home. If you’re still looking for a great gift for that little cousin, here you go…