i am an avid reader....i read daily for at least 30 minutes...
reading is me time...the one time during the day that i am doing something for me and me alone..
before our journey began with the military i was the proud owner of hundreds of books...all of which i read cover to cover...
since our stint with the government began i have had to find new homes for all of my gazillions of books...books are heavy which means we go WAY over our weight allowance which equals an unhappy hubby...
for now the girls and i make weekly trips to the library and borrowing as opposed to buying....that equals a happy hubby when it comes time to PCS...
i absolutely adore reading and am so overjoyed that my girls love to read as much as i do...
i have read to both of my girls since nightly since the day they were brought home from the hospital...
reading offers so many benefits.....improved memory....improved writing skills...increased analytical thinking....increased vocabulary...improved creativity and imagination...all of this was so important to me to instill in my children....
avery is doing a fantastic job reading and adilyn is reaping the rewards....
at night i can sit on the couch and hear adilyn hop into her sisters bed and for about thirty minutes i can hear avery reading to adilyn....it melts my heart...
of course it does mean sometimes that mornings are a little bit of a crank fest...but the cranks are soon forgotten as we get ready for the day...
so...my 4 favorite books you ask.....here they are:
love you forever - robert munsch (this book melts my heart and brings a tear to my eye every time the girls and i read it)
white oleander - janet fitch (love this book...just love it...so real and raw)
she's come undone - willy lamb (this one affected me to the core....it made me laugh and wince with recognition)
the help - kathryn stockett (this book went past phenomenal for me!!)
so those are my four favorites right now...
the funniest thing about this list is the fact that my favorite type of read is suspense/thriller and none of my fav genre made the list....the oddities of life...never will cease to amaze me!!!
i also wanted to share some summer fun pictures of the girls....love the hula hoop picture...
happy saturday readers!!!!!
xoxoxoxoxo ~r~
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