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I don’t know what makes me think that starting a newsletter right now is a great idea?!?

Confession: I’m great at starting things… it’s the finishing where I tend to fizzle (or get wildly distracted). That’s usually when things get complicated; and I quietly disappear.

As I sit here, 2 months postpartum, with 3 other kids raising themselves… it feels like the walls are falling down around me. But, this newsletter has been on my heart for a while - and it’s much easier than a podcast, right?

Tabitha Talks is a new (and more personal) space. It’s not just book news.

Truth is, I get hundreds of messages on Instagram each week (sometimes in a day)! I’d love to answer each one, but I just can’t. This is where I’ll share weekly thoughts on early language development, parenting tips, screen time sanity, and little things that make big moments — with the occasional behind-the-scenes peek at life around here.  

In this newsletter, I hope to share:

• 🗣️ Language & early learning tips from a speech therapist- most asked questions from moms (suggestions from me.. and maybe a few other guests).

• 📺️ My recommendations (products, screen time, weird healthy stuff, etc)

• 📖 Additional behind the scenes of my books and life as a creative (it’s super glamorous… not!)

• 🕊️ And maybe some random musings (like when my 8-year-old saved us from attack geese with a one in a million shot!).

These past few weeks in a minute:

Truthfully, it’s been a really difficult postpartum season - colic, nursing, birth trauma, you name it. Now, add in a random allergic reaction for my 3-year-old and trip to the ER last week 😓. I feel confined to my bedroom. Like I’m missing out on the world. I hope some of y’all can relate. But there are super sweet moments as well (watching all four kids interact and grow in different stages). And I know that God has purpose for me in this season. Sidenote: I’ve been LOVING my Pranamat to help my body recover and relax (especially with being hunched over nursing for hours of the day).

There is a lot of new life on the farm… We got some new baby goslings that are growing fast, and then a batch of chicks 🐣 … then another batch 🐥 … and maybe 5 more 🐤 (we are up to 13 chicks and 2 goslings now… time to add on to the coop!)

And I had a new book release a couple of weeks ago (that marks my 10th children’s book- this is wild y’all 🤯… I could have never dreamed this). Check it out here if you have a little athlete in the family.

— Tabitha Paige, Author/ Illustrator, Speech Therapist & Mom

We’re pretty restrictive of television, but in moderation, we’re big fans of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. It is a super fun show for littles and mediums…

We would love a pool y’all, but that’s not in the cards right now. Texas is heating up fast, we’re 25 minutes from the city- I’m not about to take my whole crew to a local pool. Enter the inflatable water slide (we would have been kings and queens 👑 of the neighborhood if we had this in my day, right?!?)

We literally spend DAYS outside in this thing. Over the past 5 years, we have had both the double slide and single slide versions and loved them both. In reality, I expect this thing to last 2-4 years (depending on how rough the kids and/ or husband is and how well you dry and store it) - but it is SOOO worth it!