Here’s the thing. If I didn’t work on Saturdays, I can tell you with absolute certainty that I would spend my morning sleeping late, watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and generally not doing the dishes. If you have kids, I’m sure your schedule varies from that some (like maybe waking up at 4 am) but we have a new Saturday activity for you to keep your precious babies from turning their brains into cat food by watching too many shows on TLC. Story time! Turn off that atrocity named Honey Boo Boo and bring your brood to story time every Saturday morning at 11:00– it’s the absolute best way to spend a weekend morning. Grab a muffin and some coffee from downstairs, herd your babes up the stairs, and enjoy 30 beautifully peaceful minutes of browsing, snoozing, or sipping while I read to your kids.

As a rule, I usually try to pick at least one book that has just come out (usually the week before) to read, along with some favorite classics. Last story time we enjoyed Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen’s new masterpiece The Dark, paired with the David Wiesner’s Caldecott winning book Tuesday, and Molly Idle’s brand spanking new dino-tea party extravaganza called Tea Rex. The kids then drew pictures of what we read about! There were lots of flying frogs and dinosaurs holding teacups, let me tell you, and it was brilliant. To the parents of those kids: frame that stuff. It ruled.


So pack your kids and their friends into the car and doodle on over to Lemuria next Saturday at 11:00 for story time. Who knows? it could be the start of a wonderful new tradition.

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