My two-year-old is the middle child and she's found a kindred spirit in Nora, the noisy mouse from this picture book by Rosemary Wells. I know some parents avoid this book because of the refrain, "Nora," said her sister, "why are you so dumb?" but I have
Oftentimes, it takes us buckets of tears, sweat and (literally) blood before we achieve what we want in life. But so long as it means waking up the next day to a morning as majestic and picturesque as this, I would not mind fighting till I shed the last b