Monday, October 14, 2013

Blast From the Past 5

I've been talking to my sister a lot lately since she's trying to figure out a nap schedule for my nephew.  I don't think I offered much help but maybe I offered a little distraction when she was frustrated that he wasn't sleeping.  Anyway, I found a couple of fun sister pictures...

The last time I was at Rocky Mountain National Park. Summer 2002. Need to go back.

Laura and Brett's wedding. Summer 2005.


Sunday, October 13, 2013

Writing/Reading

Grace has been showing a lot of progress in her writing and reading skills lately.  She is definitely confident reading very simple words and sentences and she loves it.  She is also showing that she can/wants to write things she hears.  For example the other day she showed me this...


At first glance I wasn't that impressed but then she told me she wrote Strawberry Shortcake and I was super impressed.  I'm so proud of her!  This emergent reading stage might be my favorite stage yet.


Wednesday, October 2, 2013

3rd Quarter Book List

July - September produced a bunch of good books for me. I went on a long fiction reading kick and even knocked out one 800 page book and one 700 page book. But by the last couple of weeks of September I felt like I needed some non-fiction to change things up. I only gave two and three *'s this quarter because I thought everything I read was really good.

I continued to rate the books on an * system that is as follows...
* - Not great and don't read it unless you're bored or it looks really really interesting to you personally and even then you might want to think twice.
** - Pretty good and if it looks interesting to you I would recommend it.  I don't think it would be a waste of time.  I generally enjoyed these books.
*** - Great book!  Definitely read it (if it looks interesting) and you will like it.
F is for fiction and NF is for non-fiction.

27.  Divergent by Veronica Roth - (F)***

28. Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan - (NF)***

29. Feminine Appeal: Seven Virtues of a Godly Wife and Mother by Carolyn Mahaney - (NF)**

30. Inferno by Dan Brown - (F)***

31. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell - (F)**

32. A Game of Thrones: A Song of Fire and Ice Book 1 by George R.R. Martin - (F)***

33. The Wedding Dress by Rachel Hauck - (F)**

34. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - (F)***

35. Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple - (F)***

36. Tara Road by Maeve Binchy - (F)**

37. Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem by Kevin DeYoung - (NF)***

38. Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You by Andy Stanley - (NF)**