Girls Night Out
Tickets purchased a week in advance.
One cheesy, girly movie.
chocolate towers and a belching busboy.
A night out with the girls - priceless!
Pleasant Surprise
Yes. My children are reading. I didn’t have to ask them, threaten them from life to limb, bribe them with mind-numbing video games… they chose to do it all by themselves, underneath my piano and an hour before school started, just for fun!
Maddy is making tremendous progress in reading. I feel like a slacker mother for not pounding it into her like I had to with Devin, my only non-reader reader. It is rather comforting to know that she wants to read, likes to read, and thirsts for the knowledge to read at a higher difficulty.
D.J. started reading the Hatchet series by Gary Paulsen, they came highly recommended by Devin who read them last month while waiting for Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider Series, Snakehead. I picked it up for him last Friday at Wal-mart and he’s halfway through and loving every page of it. Dev kept telling me that Mr. Horowitz is writing another installment and sure enough, in finding the link for this post, learned that it was true. In the meantime, I need to find another book to keep him reading. I tried convincing them to read Harry Potter with me (three used paperback copies sitting on the bookshelf just waiting to be read) and using the ‘movies aren’t nearly as good’ argument to no avail.
I’ve heard the Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull is good. We haven’t been too successful with anything written by Cornelia Funke and Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance cycle hasn’t sparked any interest either. Any suggestions?
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