A little bedtime reading

 Porter, Harry W., and Isla have been here since Thursday.  And I had assumed that only Isla would want to be read to, but I was wrong.  Harry W. was interested too, and often Porter would sidle in!

I have gotten rid of a lot of my picture books - gotten rid of in the sense that I have found new homes for them!!  But there are still some old faves on the shelves.

 

Isla was sure this would be "boring" but changed her mind!

 

This one she emphatically declared boring, but Harry W. didn't agree with her.

 

And Porter and Dad came in to see what all the laughter was about as I read this one tonight.

I love a good picture book - and I love reading them to kids.

I need to get my "Little Free Library" up and running!!

And maybe I need to become familiar with some of the new titles out there too!!

What I appear to be doing with my time!!

Quite possibly I am avoiding work. In the last month, I have read 10 books. I did make one apron. And while at Phoebe's I did her mending. And during Conference weekend, I ironed everything in the ironing basket. But it seems like I mostly read. In my defense, I have been on the plane a few times - and you need to read in airports and on airplanes.

The weather is lovely out - I should at least go sit outside and read I guess!! But it reminds me of my youth - I was always reading. I ran the water in the bathtub so my mom thought I was scrubbing the tub - my regular Saturday job - but I was reading!! I sat in my history class while positively boring Mr. Pitkanen lectured - and had a novel tucked inside my history book. I would be sent to bed since it was bedtime - and I would read under the covers with a flashlight. My brothers built and abandoned a tree house - more like a tree-platform actually - and I would sit up there and read - while listening to my mom calling for me to come in and peel potatoes or something. I loved going babysitting - long hours of reading uninterrupted after the kiddos went to bed - I always put them to bed on time and was stern and unrelenting about the necessity of their staying in bed. Parents loved me - kids not so much!

Years ago - when we lived in Cook Apartments in Centerville - I remember getting wrapped up in a book and positively abandoning everything else - Harry came home to some quiet chaos and said, "Oh, has Mom been reading today?"

Next on my list are the Port Authority books Hannah recommended. I ordered them on Amazon - and they have shipped!! I am really excited to have another series to get immersed in. The reviews called Wendell Berry "the Faulkner of Kentucky." (so much for my resolve not to buy books!!)

I believe I've said all this before. But it bears repeating!