#3

Well, I didn't get any reading done from my book this week.  I've been reading with my 7 year old and my munchkin (my 10 month old).  One of the books I read with Chase, 7, was 50 Below Zero by Robert Munch.  I love that book!  Unless you have heard it read by Robert Munch, you don't get the full effect.  (Here is the YouTube link just in case you haven't heard it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7fyiahPAB8)  When I was in Alaska working with 1st and 2nd graders, it was one of the most requested books from Tumblebooks.   It is a great interactive story when reading it aloud in a classroom.  My son loves to act it out.

My munchkin and I read Sandra Boynton and a couple of Jane Yolen and Mark Teague's dinosaur board books.  He is still very squirmy and likes to grab the books as I read, but I love it when he turns and looks at me and smiles.  It's like I said something that he thought was funny.  I need to read to him more often so he gets used to it.

I did a lot of reading online this week.  The last couple of days it has been -50 and colder in North Pole, AK, where we lived before we moved here in 2010.  I have been reading articles and messages from my friends who are having to deal with temps.  I remember once when it was about that cold and I never really understood cabin fever until that time.  You don't even want to walk outside.  The feeling is indescribable.  I just hope that everyone stays safe.

reading log:
Monday:    15min
Tuesday:    25 min
Saturday:   30 min
Sunday:     30 min

    

#2

This last week I continued to read about Darcy and her version of how she and Marcus got together and her betrayal of her fiance Dex.  It is really quite interesting reading from her point of view.  Darcy and Rachel talk about the same situations, but neither knows what is really going on with their friend.  Not very often do you get to hear a story from two different points of view.
I also read a book with my 7 year old son.  He has been wanting me to read a book to him.  Usually he has to read to me for his reading log.  So Saturday I read a book to him about wolf pups.  It was really a cool book actually because it was set in Alaska.  We love reading books about Alaska.  I tried to buy several before we moved and when I had my little guy last year my friends sent more as baby gifts.  Usually when I read books to children I try to ask them questions about what I am reading, but I don't have to do that with my son.  He is constantly asking questions.  Sometimes I have to actually tell him to wait until I'm done because we will never get done with the book if I stop every time he asks something.  But that's why I love reading to him.  He is so curious and observant.  A lot of the time he's not asking a question, but telling me something he noticed or some piece of information that he already knows.  My goal is to read to him several times a week instead of only having him read to me.   When we were at Disney World last month we went through the Swiss Family Tree House and he thought it so cool.  I'm thinking about reading Swiss Family Robinson to him.  I think he would really enjoy it because of the adventure.
Until next time...

Log times:
Monday  20 min
Wednesday  20 min
Thursday  15 min
Sunday  60 min  

Blog #1

This is my first blog...ever.  I'm not sure if anything I have to say is going to be particularly interesting, but then again it may be kind of nice to get ideas out of my head and "on paper."  I was going to read a book called The Out of Sync Child.  A friend of mine recommended it to me after we were talking about our children and the difficulties we sometimes have with them.  I decided though that if I was going to read for pleasure I wanted it to be something that was just for fun.  I still want to read the other book, but with all of the reading I am having to do this semester, I needed something I didn't have to think about.
So now I'm reading Something Blue by Emily Giffin.  This summer I read her Something Borrowed after spending a lot of time in the library trying to find something to read.  I saw the advertisements for the movie and I just happened to see the book in the library so I thought I would try it.  I hadn't seen the movie yet and I wanted to wait until I read the book to watch it.
The first book was told from the point of view of Rachel.  She and Darcy were best friends since childhood and Rachel ended up betraying Darcy by having an affair with her fiance.  The situation is not something I would condone or be involved in, and some of the language in the book was a bit harsh at times, but it's about young professionals living in New York City so I guess it is to be expected.  The book I am reading now, Something Blue, is told from Darcy's point of view.  It begins a little before where the other book ended.  Darcy just found out about Rachel and Dex (Darcy's now ex-fiance).  Darcy is understandably upset, but she refuses to let them off the hook, even though she cheated on her fiance and got pregnant with one of his friends.  WOW!  Now that I am actually putting this in writing it sounds really bad.  Like I said before, this is not something that I believe in, but I'm sure it happens.  Reading these books, however, makes me thankful for my marriage to my amazing husband and my Christian upbringing so that I was never in that type of situation.  So I guess I will be reading about how things work out for Darcy and her baby.  (I'm assuming it's a boy because of the title.)

reading times:
Monday    30 min
Wed         15 min
Saturday   45 min