This is such exciting news! The project I have dreamed about and worked on for over a year has finally come to fruition!

It’s a website all about Christian-based read-aloud books and Christian-based, American family traditions, organized by season and month. If you are an American Christian mom who loves to connect with your children through reading aloud and family traditions based on American Christian holidays, you will love this!

This is what I wish I had had when I was a young mom. With this website, you can find all the seasonal-themed read-alouds that your book-loving mama’s heart could ever enjoy! I coded the website myself, and that part took over a year. I took a class to learn HTML and CSS in order to do that part. It was hard, like learning a foreign language. I’m so happy that I pushed through and did it! I’ve been compiling a spreadsheet of read-alouds and traditions that go with each month and season for over 8 years. This has been hard work but at the same time pure joy for me! One of my favorite things to do is to make lists, because yeah, I’m just nerdy that way, so my list-making heart was in heaven.

Just go over here to use it: christianfamilyreadloudsandtraditions.com. Click on the name of a season to get to the lists. Each season has three months. Under each month, you will see the following sections of lists:

-picture books

-chapter books to read aloud or for older children to read to themselves

-family traditions to go with the holiday(s) and seasonal theme of the month

-traditional recipes (according to the Pioneer Woman, a great source of traditional American food. If you want to adapt the recipes to be more whole foods-y, sub melted butter for any vegetable oil that’s called for in baking).

-books for parents to read to themselves to enlighten themselves about the holiday(s), the history behind the holiday and associated traditions, and seasonal themes.

I have the basic site done, but I will be continually adding to the lists because, like I said, I love lists and that means I love adding to lists! I’m also going to add more categories for the lists, like traditions for work, play, mealtime, travel, extended family, and more. Right now the lists above are all related to the seasons and holidays.

I do hope you will check my new website weekly, if not daily! Have the tab open for your public library at the same time so you can go put all these fun books on hold. Happy reading and family-traditioning!