This is one of my favorite weeks of the entire year – and while it may seem very uneventful on paper – I usually perform 5 shows a day for children ranging from Preschool all the way through 3rd grade!  It is a blast!  Looking forward to finishing this extremely busy week!

Here is this week’s schedule:

• Monday: Bridgewater Schools 9:00-3:00
• Tuesday: Bridgewater Schools 9:00-3:00
• Wednesday: Bridgewater Schools 9:00-3:00
• Thursday: Bridgewater Schools 9:00-3:00
• Friday: Bridgewater Schools 9:00-3:00

Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Bridgewater
2. Raynham

While I enjoy the lazy days with my son – there aren’t too many – my week is filled with shows, workshops and trainings!  My teacher trainings are especially fun because it’s a time that I get to really talk with the teachers and re-live the great days of when I had my own classroom.  I was just at a school recently of a teacher who had taken my training – she told me that it was the best and most useful training she’d ever been to.  She said “rarely do you go to a training and use what you learned the very next day.”  It was so fantastic to hear!

Final Preschool Building Stories in Kingston is happening this week!  Come on out and check out Wordless Picture Books with me. I have been told that the workshop is chockful of fantastic ideas and at the same time is a blast to attend!

Here is this week’s schedule:

• Wednesday: Brockton Library @ 10:30am
• Wednesday: Final Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Kingston Library at 2:00pm – This week: Wordless Picture Books!
• Thursday: Lil’ Munchkins Preschool @10:00am & 10:30am
• Friday: Little Discoveries @ 8:00am – Teacher Training!
• Friday: WORD Inc. Child Care @12:00pm – Tewacher Training!

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops and Library shows are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Brockton
2. Kingston
3. Pembroke
4. Scituate
5. Brockton
6. Fall River

This week is a nice break from all the busy weeks I’ve been having – even though this week is still chock full of Big Ryan goodness! My New Hampshire trip went amazingly well, even with all the cold. It was fantastic to visit Greenfield Elementary once again this year – seeing the students who both remember me and the brand new students seeing me for the first time is such a joy! It’s always a great trip because I get to see my Aunt and stay in her beautiful home. She has plenty of birdfeeders set up and that’s nothing short of glorious for me! I saw a Red Poll for the first time in my life (pictures to follow) and the food was devine! Brockton’s Library first week was hugely attended and I look forward to going back again this week! Make sure to mark your calendars!

The Preschool Building Stories in Kingston is flowing smoothly now and I am excited to make puppets this week with the group! Pembroke Library continues to have a great turnout and we enter the final week there on Wednesday! Come on out and check out Wordless Picture Books with me.

Here is this week’s schedule:

• Tuesday: Laura’s Center for the Arts @ 5:00pm
• Wednesday: Brockton Library @ 10:30am
• Wednesday: Third Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Kingston Library at 2:00pm – This week: Making Puppets!
• Wednesday: Final Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Pembroke Library at 4:00pm – This week: Wordless Picture Books!
• Friday: Berrybrook Preschool @ 1:00pm

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops and Library shows are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Hanover
2. Brockton
3. Kingston
4. Pembroke
5. Duxbury

One of my mentors once told me that traveling was nice – but your hometown is your bread and butter.  I know what he meant, especially when I do travel overnight away from my home.  This is one of those weeks – another extremely busy week – where I am heading to New Hampshire for a block of shows Thursday going into Friday.  While I’d rather be home, if I have to travel I am glad I’ll be in New Hampshire, one of the more beautiful states.  That will be closing out my week – before that I will be in Brockton for the start of a series of a three week set of shows!  Come on out to see me!

The second week of Preschool Building Stories in Kingston went much better than the first!  I am looking forward to continuing the workshop there this week.  Pembroke Library had another great turnout and we enter the third week there where we will be making puppets!  Let’s keep our fingers crossed for great weather!

Here is this week’s schedule:

• Monday: Smith Mills Day Nursery @ 10:00am
• Monday: Ridgehill School Teacher Training @ 6:30pm
• Tuesday: Smith Mills Day Nursery @ 10:00am
• Wednesday: Brockton Library @ 10:30am
• Wednesday: Second Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Kingston Library at 2:00pm – This week: Using Puppets!
• Wednesday: Third Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Pembroke Library at 4:00pm – This week: Making Puppets!
• Thursday: Bright Horizons @10:00/10:30am
• Friday: Greenfield Elementary School @ 9:15am
• Friday: Triumph Head Start @ 2:00pm

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops and Library shows are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Dartmouth
2. Norwell
3. Brockton
4. Kingston
5. Pembroke
6. Bedford, NH
7. Greenfield, NH
8. Taunton

I had a blast this weekend at not only the Storybook Breakfast (pics to follow tomorrow on here – or already posted on my FB page!) where I was able to shake the hands of Curious George, Stelleluna, Paddington Bear, and Carol from Where the Wild Things Are.  Then, on Sunday I took my daughter to Maple Sunday at the Science Center in Norwell, and after we went sledding.  My daughter is enjoying the outdoors more and more!  Dream come true!

Since the first week of Preschool Building Stories in Kingston had a snafu – we are starting the first week round again this week!  So, come on out and enjoy yourself as we explore telling stories in a new and fun way!  Pembroke Library had a great turnout and we enter the second week there.  Let’s keep our fingers crossed for great weather!

Here is this week’s schedule:

• Tuesday: Lil’ Munchkins Day Care and Preschool @ 10:00/10:30am
• Tuesday: Eldredge Library @ 4:00pm
• Tuesday: Jonathan Bourne Library @ 6:30pm
• Wednesday: Barret Russell School @ 9:15/10:00am
• Wednesday: First Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Kingston Library at 2:00pm – This week: Using Voices and Sound Effects!
• Wednesday: Second Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Pembroke Library at 4:00pm – This week: Puppets!
• Thursday: Stepping Stones Preschool @ 10:00am
• Friday: Leddy Preschool @ 6:30pm
• Saturday: Early Childhood Fair at the Kingston Elementary School @ 11:00am
• Saturday: Attleboro Arts Museum @ 2:00pm

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops and Library shows are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Scituate
2. Chatham
3. Bourne
4. Brockton
5. Kingston
6. Pembroke
7. Hanover
8. Taunton
9. Kingston (again!)
10. Attleboro

March?  It doesn’t look like March!  We need a lot of sunny days in order to clean things up for the first day of Spring in just a few weeks!  Besides that, I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe.  My visit to Sherborn was a huge success and the crowd there was fantastic!  I will be doing a bit of traveling once again this week – this time to Winchester on Tuesday.  I really enjoy going to the Winchester Library as I have noticed a couple of return audience members.  I love it when I start to see familiar faces!

We are starting up the newest round of Preschool Building Stories at both the Kingston and Pembroke Libraries!  Hingham was a huge and fantastic success with many families joining us each week – hopefully we’ll end with even more people joining the fun in Kingston and Pembroke.  Let’s cross our fingers for great weather!

Here is this week’s schedule:

• Tuesday: Winchester Library @ 3:30pm
• Wednesday: First Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Kingston Library at 2:00pm – This week: Using Voices and Sound Effects!
• Wednesday: First Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Pembroke Library at 4:00pm – This week: Using Voices and Sound Effects!
• Friday: Montclair Elementarty School @ 9:00am
• Friday: L.B. Merrill School @ 7:15pm
• Saturday: Storybook Breakfast at Plymouth South High School @ 10:00am

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops and Library shows are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Winchester
2. Kingston
3. Pembroke
4. Quincy
5. Raynham
6. Plymouth

I get to entertain at my daughter’s school this week – one of the major perks of being a storyteller is that you can visit your child’s school and make the kids laugh – and then, by default, you’ve made your kid even cooler than she already is!  I am also heading to Sherborn this week.  While this is quite the ride, I really don’t mind the traveling, as long as it’s not in the deep snow!

We are wrapping up the latest round of Preschool Building Stories at the Hingham Library!  We had quite the turnout for vacation week – which was awesome – and hopefully we’ll end with even more people joining the fun.  Hopefully we will have only really nice days this week – so join us for the fantastic finale!

Here is this week’s schedule:

• Wednesday: Carver Elementary School – Kindergarten @ 9:30am
• Wednesday: Final Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Hingham Library at 3:30pm – This week: Wordless Picture Books!
• Wednesday: Teacher Training at 6:30pm for CNK: The Perfect Circle
• Thursday: Sherborn Library @ 3:30pm
• Friday: West End Day Nursery @9:30/10:00am

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops and Library shows are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Carver
2. Hingham
3. Pembroke
4. Sherborn
5. New Bedford

I know this snow is really messing with people’s schedules – I know it’s made my schedule a constant headache.  No worries though, if we have an event booked and you are open I will make it!  If you need to reschedule, I can do that too!  I am as flexible as possible and really try to work everyone in – so don’t worry about a thing!

That said, the latest round of Preschool Building Stories began last week at the Hingham Library and we had a great turnout!  We have room for a few more so if you’d like to join us this week – please don’t hesitate!  Also, Wednesday is supposed to be one of the only really nice days this week – so come out while you can!

Here is this week’s schedule:

• Wednesday: Early Bird Academy at 10:00am
• Wednesday: Second Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Hingham Library at 3:30pm – This week: Playing with Puppets!
• Wednesday: Teacher Training at 6:30pm for CNK: The Perfect Circle
• Thursday: Lil’ Munchkins Preschool and Day Care at 10:00/10:30am
• Friday: Camp West Wood at 11:00am
• Friday: Triumph Head Start at 2:00pm
• Saturday: HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops and Library shows are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Pembroke
2. Hingham
3. Scituate
4. Stoughton
5. Taunton

I hope everyone is enjoying the snow – there’s plenty of it to go around!  My daughter really isn’t the outside kid that I was so she spent most of these snow days either snuggled in her covers and watching Disney movies or playing with her dollhouse.  She did pretend to make her dolls go outside to play… so that is something!

The latest round of Preschool Building Stories are beginning this week at the Hingham Library.  Also, the week we missed in Carver is rescheduled for today at 5:00 – so come and join us for the final week where we will discuss wordless picture books and how to use them!  Here is this week’s schedule:

• Wednesday: Hedge School at 10:30/11:15
• Wednesday: First Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Hingham Library at 3:30pm – This week: Using Voices and Sound Effects!
• Wednesday: Final Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Carver Library at 5:00pm – This week: Wordless Picture Books!
• Friday: Growth Unlimited at 9:30am
• Saturday: Paul Pratt Memorial Library at 3:00pm

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops and Library shows are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Plymouth
2. Hingham
3. Carver
4. Kingston
5. Cohasset

2015 has been a mild winter but it looks as though we may be making up for it this week!  I am booked the entire week – so of course the snow would wait till now to make an appearance!  I don’t mind though – if I have something with me this week and have to reschedule just let me know as soon as you can and we will work something out!

The latest rounds of Preschool Building Stories are ending this week in the Carver and Plympton Libraries.  If you haven’t had a chance to join us yet - come this be the week!  It will be loads of fun discussing wordless picture books!  Onto this week’s schedule:

• Monday: Steeple School at 9:15 & 10:15am
• Monday: Teacher Training at the Ridgehill School at 6:00pm
• Tuesday: Steeple School at 9:15/10:15am & 1:00pm
• Wednesday: Growth Unlimited at 9:00am
• Wednesday: Final Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Carver Library at 4:30pm – This week: Wordless Picture Books!
• Thursday: Final Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Plympton Library at 4:00pm – This week: Wordless Picture Books!

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Marshfield
2. Norwell
3. Kingston
4. Carver
5. Plympton