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Life Lately

Sarah’s family celebrated E’s third birthday–no more toddlers in her house! Abby and her family just got back from a weekend trip to Minnesota.

Sarah was recently on the Sarah R Bagley Podcast and the Cohesive Home podcast if you want to listen to her chatting about her new show, Family Pedals.

Reading Lately

Sarah finished The Nix by Nathan Hill, a contemporary fiction novel in the same vein as Jonathan Franzen or Jeffrey Eugenides’ work.

Abby listened to The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room, a memoir by Rainn Wilson, better known as Dwight from The Office.

Raising Readers

We discuss what our reading life was like growing up, what reading looks like with our kids these days, our favorite childhood books, and our hopes for our kids as they become readers.

Favorite resources for finding books:

• Raising Race Conscious Children
• A Mighty Girl

Favorite books from our childhoods:

• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran
• Bootsie Barker Bites by Barbara Bottner and Peggy Rathman
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Favorite books to read to our kids:

• Toddler
  • Indestructible books
  • Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems (loved by my preschoolers too!)
  • A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
  • Counting on Community by Innosanto Nagara
  • My Bus by Byron Barton
  • Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Eric Carle
  • Mem Fox books, especially Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes and Where Is the Green Sheep?
  • Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers
  • Baby Present by Ericka McConnell and Rachel Neumann
  • I Like Myself by Karen Beaumont
  • No Bows by Shirley Smith Duke
  • Global Babies
  • Sandra Boynton books
  • Carnival of Cats by Charles Ghinga
•  Preschooler
  • Bear on a Bike by Stella Blackstone and Debbie Harter (and others in same series)
  • Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman (and others in same series)
  • Ladybug Girl books by David Soman and Jacky Davis
  • Building Our House by Jonathan Bean
  • Most People by Michael Leannah
  • Jan Brett books, especially in the winter
  • Who Has What? All About Girls’ Bodies and Boys’ Bodies by Robie Harris (also great ones by him about birth and reproduction)
• Kindergartner
  • The Twits by Roald Dahl

Eating Lately

Abby enjoyed a German Potato salad made by her neighbor for Oktoberfest and Sarah attempted sauerkraut guided by the book Wild Fermentation.

If you’d like to join in the conversation, please leave us a comment, email us at friendlierpodcast@gmail.com, or find us on Instagram @friendlierpodcast. Thanks for listening!

As a way to thank our listeners and celebrate our first YEAR of podcasting, we are giving away an Instant Pot!

To enter, leave a comment on this post with:
1) Your favorite Friendlier episode,
2) A topic you’d like us to discuss in a future episode, and
3) A book or recipe suggestion for us to try.

We’ll close comments October 31, 2017, and then we’ll draw a random winner. Double check that you enter your email correctly when you make a comment, so that we can get in touch with you. If we don’t hear from you within a week, we’ll draw another name. This giveaway is open to US residents only, but don’t lose heart international listeners, we hope to include you in future giveaways.

Good luck and THANK YOU for a wonderful year!

Update, November 1, 2017: We so appreciate all of your entries/suggestions! Congratulations to our winner, Kt!

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Life Lately

Abby and Plum have been riding (and loving) the city bus. Sarah shares the details of her broken vacuum situation.

Reading Lately

Abby is on the fourth book of the Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny, which are mysteries set in a Canadian small town.

Sarah is on a self-help kick and recommends Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport. He also has a TED talk with some of his reasons for not being on social media.

Secondhand Wins

We geek out about the joy and satisfaction that comes from finding what we need, used. We share our history with secondhand shopping, our strategies and go-to places for finding deals, and our favorite secondhand wins.

Eating Lately

Sarah made an apple tart for a recent potluck and Abby discovered a new way to eat bok choy–in a chopped salad.

If you’d like to join in the conversation, please leave us a comment, email us at friendlierpodcast@gmail.com, or find us on Instagram @friendlierpodcast. Thanks for listening!