Wednesday, February 1, 2017

A tiny month of things I love

Valentines day is kind of, hmm, to be honest, well it's kind of lame. I never actually dated anyone in high school thus I had to watch all the girls around me getting flowers and candies and balloons in school on valentines day every year. I remember it being a unique sort of torture. Truly it was awful.

This year will mark fifteen years of marriage to a really funny man who is incredibly talented (he's an incredible singer song writer) and who is quite sensitive in a vulnerable sort of way but he is NOT sentimental. He thinks valentines day is lame too and he has this serious issue with buying flowers because quote, "they stink and they die." (I LOVE flowers)

To recap I'm not much a fan of valentines day but I do have a bit of fun posting about "things I love" on the blog in February. I'm a pretty big fan of love.

I don't doubt that most of my posts this month will be about my son (who is in time out right now actually) and I think I can do the theme great justice by starting out the "things I love" with The Mouse and the Motorcycle. He and I have been flying through chapter books this year (all of one whole month so far). The most recent book we read was Beverly Cleary's, The Mouse and the Motorcycle.

I personally really enjoyed the book but even more so I loved reading it to my son. Hearing him request each day that we read it brought such joy to my heart. I want him to love books and to love reading. I feel like I've been putting a significant effort into nourishing his love of reading over the past several years. Now that he's getting excited about reading chapter books together, now that he's specifically requesting that we stop whatever it is we're doing at any given moment so that we can sit down together and read, I love it!!!

We finished reading The Mouse and the Motorcycle on Sunday. Little Abe has really enjoyed most of the chapter books we've read but he seemed to enjoy this last book the most. On Monday we had plans to go to the library to return the book and get the sequal, Runaway Ralph (Ralph is the mouse who rides the motorcycle). We never ended up going to the library because little Abe decided that we really should read the book again. His exact words were something like, "You know mom, at first I didn't really think I'd get into that book so much. But actually I really actually LOVED it!"

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  1. Very, very special years you are having with your son. Enjoy every minute.

    Don't know why I wrote that. You obviously DO enjoy every minute. You are truly blessed.

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    1. I am VERY grateful for my incredibly rambunctious blessing, no doubt about it!

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    2. And may I suggest that your awareness of the boon which Abner is (and your total joy in him) is itself a blessing both to yourself and t your readers.

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  2. I think Valentines is a bit hokey too. I get flowers every year but TheHub finally believed me when I told him I love the cheap bunch of cut flowers from the grocery store more than I love roses. Plus he brings them home randomly throughout the year and I really love that.
    How wonderful that Little Abe loves his books. The world needs more readers!

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    1. I'm pretty sure I like all flowers. I'm pretty sure my husband dislikes all flowers. A few years ago he did buy me mums though. It was so completely unexpected and wonderful.

      I'm in complete agreement with you. The world definitely needs more readers.

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  3. You both might enjoy her "Henry Huggins" books next!

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    1. Thankyou very much for the suggestion! I really enjoy the way she writes. We've read quite a few chapter books recently and within the last year and I love her writing style. I'm pretty excited that she's written so many books. Is that weird? Haha! I think the two of us will really enjoy most of them.

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  4. Valentines is hoky but I'll get candy for hubs and youngest and send Starbucks cards to my grown children. I'm hoky that way. Hug that little guy.

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    1. We'll do some things too little Abe and I. I'll get him some candy and he'll make cards for a few people. Even though its kind of lame I won't miss an opportunity for festive fun.

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