Kathleen | Roots & Boots, Author at Roots & Boots

Home is Where the Junk is

This was a fun, easy project that sort of evolved over time. It all began ten years ago, when I married a Native Texan. You know all those stereotypes of people from Texas? They’re true. At least they are in the case of my Native Texan, who brought to our blessed union enough Texas memorabilia to…

Our New Favorite Resource for Family Devotionals

After several failed attempts at establishing a Sunday Night Family Devotional Time, we’ve switched tactics. We’ve used several resources which we really liked, but were either too time-intensive and felt sort of contrived, or just lasted too long for Little Brother. It kept ending in frustration–for Older Brother, who truly was engaged but did not…

8 Favorite Children’s Books About the Beach

Our annual trip to the beach is a major highlight of the year for our boys. Having just returned home from this year’s trip, I’ve got beach on the brain! So here’s a list of our favorite children’s books about the beach. These are the books we read in the days leading up to the big…

4 Tips for Library Lovers, plus bonus quotes

Do you love the library as much as we do? Are you tired of paying exorbitant fees for the 30-some-odd books you forgot to renew five days ago? Not that it’s ever happened {ahem} to us, of course. Are you ever disappointed to discover your library does not have a specific book you’d really love…

How to Save Money on Children’s Books

Note: This post is part of a week-ish long series on one of my favorite topics–books: Children’s Books, Used Books, Favorite Books, Libraries and more. Not interested in books? Just skip over this series and join us again next week… Have you entered the Children’s Books Giveaway yet? You can do that here: Giveaway: 10…

My Favorite All-Purpose Reference Guide for Holistic Health

Look what just arrived in the mail! Prescription for Natural Cures has been on my book list for some time now, and after borrowing it multiple times from the local library–as well as from my holistic doctor’s lending library–I finally broke down and bought a (used) copy.