A favorite this week was Boxes for Katje about a penpal relationship between a Dutch and American family in postwar Netherlands. It really drives home how easy it is to bless people that cross our paths and reminds us that many people go without things we take for granted.

Since sometimes people are curious about simple ways we extend our reading here are some things we did:

found the Netherlands and Indiana on the map

talk about wooden shoes like in the pics 

note the mailman's bicycle instead of our mail truck (and Dutch bicycles here)

follow the life cycle of a tulip in the last pages 

review parts of a personal letter and how to address an envelope

All off the cuff, no elaborate manuals or standards. We just noticed those things in the book that relate to things they study otherwise.