If you were to up and move tomorrow and your kids had a say in it, there’s a safe chance they’d want Lindsey of Filth Wizardry as their neighbor. In fact, there’s a good chance they’d knock you out of your chair so that they could sit next to the cool craft lady.

One look at Lindsey’s cleverly named blog, Filth Wizardry, and there’s a good chance you’d knock your kids out to sit next to her.

If your child loves getting mail and you’re just fresh out of pen pal ideas, consider a magazine subscription. From the frivolous to the serious, there’s a magazine for every child out there– including toddlers.

While Summer is definitely time for playing (and exploring), sometimes what we all need is the chance to sit down with our own new literary discovery and go to a far away place, even if just for a little while…and some of the best books for doing this are the middle grade novels. Books bring us on the vacations we didn’t take, introduce us to friends we haven’t yet met and make anything seem possible