Not My Own: Yummy Summer: Summer Reading

Monday, July 21, 2014

Yummy Summer: Summer Reading

This is a very common scene in our home

My little girls are avid readers!

One of them in particular is rarely seen without a book.

We call her Brigitta (from Sound of Music!)

I always praise them for their reading and tell them I think it's so cool that they love to read.

For many years I've aspired to be a "reader." I often joke that I'm illiterate because I never read.

It's really hard for me to find a good book.

I feel like I don't retain anything I read.

I often fall asleep when I start reading.

But I really admire people who read and I want to be one of them!

That is why I affirm my girls so much in their love of reading - book are magical portals into other worlds and ideas. They ignite the imagination and provoke deeper thoughts.

Books are rad!

Readers are even radder! (yep, that's a word)

These bookmarks were a gift to the girls for their birthday - Mark My Time.

They record how long it takes you to read a book, or you can tell your child to read for 30 minutes and set the count down timer - hands down the coolest gift ever for a kid who love to read!

I had a crazy thought a few months ago that scared me - one day my girls are going to clue into the fact that I never read and say, "why doesn't mommy ever read books? I guess I won't read anymore either." And I will be the end of their reading career!

How can I constantly praise them for reading and say it's so cool, yet I don't do it?

I saw on Pintrist the top books you should read before they become movies this year.

One in particular caught my eye

"The Hundred Foot Journey" by Richard Morais

I read the review and thought it sounded pretty good.

I tucked it away in my mind and exited out of Pintrist.

STOP - go back and get it on Amazon NOW!

(I'm pretty good at being lazy and "waiting" to do things later)