Granny Franny's Big Red Bus - Kids Book Review

It's time for another Children's Book Review. Today it is a book for young children about a granny and her grandkids going on an adventure. We have always felt that books are very special to our family and share a love of reading but now that Fred and I have got to the "grandparent stage" we are once again looking at, buying and reading books that are suitable for young children. So when I heard about this book and the fact that it was about a granny who liked to go on an adventure with her grandkids I was very interested to get a copy to read with our grandkids. Disclaimer:  I did receive a free copy of this book to read and give my honest review. So let's have a look at Granny Franny's Big Red Bus As with other Children's Books I have reviewed SSHH Don't Wake The Baby! - Christmas Children's Book Review Marie & Mr...
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SSHH Don't Wake The Baby! - Christmas Children's Book Review

Disclaimer:I have NOT been offered a free product to write this blog post nor any other compensation.  The views expressed here are completely my own. It's Christmas time again and it's Christmas Book Review time. Today it is a book for young children about the real focus of Christmas. We have always felt that books are very special to our family and share a love of reading but now that Fred and I have got to the "grandparent stage" we are once again looking at, buying and reading books that are suitable for the "0 - 5 years" age group. So when I heard about this title and the fact that these books can be got cheaply - more about that later I - and knew the people who were recommending them were reliable (very important!) I was quick to tell my friend at church and if you read on you will find out what that resulted...
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A Fan for Christmas - A Dose of Encouragement

Children make a lot of crafts at school and Sunday School especially at special times like Christmas. How many times have you run out of magnets to attach another picture created especially for you? Some people keep all of their children's pictures but we didn't,      we just enjoyed them at the time           and then enjoyed the next one                and the next one                     and the next...... However some other things the children have made for us or bought us have been kept and one of these things is one of the decorations Fred and I put up on our Christmas Tree last week. I have never worked out what a fan has to do with Christmas but then I suppose a lot of the decorations we have for this festive time do not really...
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Loving our Children in 14 inches of Snow!!! - A Dose of Encouragement

On 14th March 1993 our family awoke to 14 inches of snow at our front door.    Needless to say this was not in Northern Ireland, nor in Belgium but in the lovely village of Hockessin in the state of Delaware, USA. The kids were young then and Fred and I were full of energy then too so as Fred dug down into the hard packed snow on the driveway and cut it away in blocks the kids and I used them to make an igloo on the front lawn. Of course we could not form it completely to curve it in so it was an open-top igloo. Then our neighbours (another couple from Northern Ireland) came out and we all went round to the back of our houses to enjoy sledding down the slope of our gardens which was a good distance because none of the houses had boundary fences or hedges or walls.  In fact...
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