Because my journal is full...

..i will share these interesting musings on literature and tidbits of our with you, so that eventually i print off the whole blog in a book and say "wow" i keep great personal/family memory records.

I have been an avid reader pretty much my whole life, my mother read to us every day and even now remains an amazing  reader. I remember at a very young age her reading aloud to me before bed; introducing us to L.M. Montgomery and CS Lewis. I still remember rolling with laughter as she read us Tom Sayer. This early “training” to read introduced me to a whole new world (or worlds), and i loved reading.  I knew I loved the classics, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain (so funny), writers like F.H. Burnett and Jack London, Laura Ingalls Wilder, EB White…All of the typical and well known “classic” authors such as Jean Craighead George, Anna Sewell, Jules Verne, Noel Stratified, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, and who does not enjoy Shakespeare from time to time.  I love Jane Austen, I find enjoyment reading the Bronte sisters and of course I have a certain fondness/ more like respect for Charles Dickens and Dostoyevsky. There are so many more i love and even more i have yet to read! 

It happens every few years or months where i become so obsessed with a type of book or specific author that i read ferociously and give up TV entirely in order to dive into the books.

In high school I quickly became introduced to the fantasy genera and found so many favorites its pointless to mention them, some of my favorite authors are: Anne Macaferry, Gail Carson Levine, and of course Robin McKinley. I read my way through many of those classics mentioned before and even went on a sort of Newberry honor book marathon reading and searching for all of them that i could. In collage i found the need to read some books that where perhaps more thought provoking like the life of Pi and The Poisonwood bible.  When I hit my second year of collage I developed a strong fascination with family relations (I studied it in school) and I quickly began collecting non-fiction branching out to different subjects as I went, finally getting more interested in history and politics and reading some non fiction in those subjects. As an adult I have created extensive lists of books that are "of literary merit" or historical importance that i have told myself i need to read. For instance i have never read anything by Victor Hugo, (i know your disgusted right?) i have never read Uncle Toms Cabin or the Count of Monte Cristo. I set myself up for a serious course of study, and then, overload, Mitchell made sure that i got a stack of lighthearted casual books from a good friend down the street (thanks Holly) ..

And now…….. It has happened again

I think I discovered a liking within myself for a totally new genre of fiction! I have been absolutely devouring historical fiction Christian romances… is that a real genre? Anyways seriously though I am reading a book a day, it’s ridiculous! I never knew! I will be honest it took several tries and quite a few books for me to really get into it, last year I got into a comedy historical fiction mood and this year it just became this, several books though went through my hands before I started seeking this genre out on my own, when your practically raised off Jane Austin, Alcott and Montgomery, all other romances seem…??? Well they are not quite at the same level, that’s why everyone knows their name. But Now that I have kind of worked through that kind of “I don’t know” thought process I find them extremely fun!

I have also been back into a great cleaning mood recently finally feeling like I am coming out of the postpartum “ah what am I doing??? Ah stop that...” phase it’s so nice!

Mitchell and I have been so good about weekly dates for like a month or more now and I notice a difference and I am loving the extra time alone with him!

I have been doing platies/yoga and a lot of walking a bit of everything every day for about a month or so now too and its really starting to pay off! Which makes me feel so excited? I Like the kind of “center yourself , breath , sit , stand correctly” focus that those routines require and I think it is starting to be a stress relief for me now that I feel more comfortable with it.

Last week Eli colored on my wall paper (I don’t want to keep it forever but still) so I had HIM clean it off the wall. Also I just took some pictures of the kids excited that daddy’s home here’s the pictures!