Reading iz good for your smarticles.

For as long as I can remember(which unless it's completely useless information it's not much) I have loved reading. My favorite book up until 1st grade was Bedtime for Sleepy Squirrell. I re-read it the other day and can't remember why kindergarten me thought it was the best book ever, but it was. I would read all day, everyday if I could(damn housework, laundry, cooking and farmville!) I pretty much read anything as long as it looks interesting. I tend to not like books filled with graphic sex scenes, well, because that means that the writer is either A)writing about personal sex experiences(EWW) or B) writing about the kind of sex they want to have(double eww) I would prefer not to know about the writers sex life or what kind of sex life they would prefer.

Anyway, the reason I'm writing this blog about reading and books is because I was dusting my bookshelf(yeah I sometimes do that) and I found my book "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein. I used to read that book over and over again growing up. To this day, The Giving Tree is my most favorite book. I thought about how I would go to bed and take my little lamp and just read for hours before I fell asleep. First grade, I think I read every single Boxcar children books that they had. Well what bothers me immensely is that none of my kids seem interested in reading at all. I mean the girls do it when they have to, and Jack and Mush like to have me read to them every night but they do it more or less so they get to stay up longer and not go to sleep. When I was Lily's age, I always had my nose stuck in some kind of book. Not because I had to, but because I loved reading. She does not share my love of reading. At all. As for Hailey...well, I think she would like reading if she followed the story instead of just reading the words. Maybe they will grow into it. Or maybe they just got their father's lack of reading love(lets put it this way, usually he reads magazines, and well more magazines. About video games)(yeah I know I married a video game nerd) I went online and found a whole bunch of books that I used to read when I was their age and I ordered them. Needless to say, I have read them more than the girls have. Sadz. Alright, thats all for now. I can hear laundry calling for me(or I need to harvest my crops on farmville)

Mommy, I like you.

Yep, that is what Mush just told me. As he is sitting almost directly on top of me while I am sitting on my bed on my laptop not cleaning my bedroom that was my main goal for today. Farmville and playing online scrabble with Lydia all day was WAY more important. I did mop my kitchen so points for me?

So, last night was "date night." For the first time ever, all FOUR of my kids slept over at their friends house. I thought that I would be completely overjoyed. The truth is. I wasn't. It was too quiet and boring for my liking. Hubby and I went out to dinner(my steak? sooooo not worth 17 dollars) then we went to blockbuster and he got Clash of the Titans. As much as I want to lick friendly handshake Sam Worthington, I wasn't in the mood to watch it. So we came home and watched preseason football, he was on his laptop on the couch and I was on mine in the chair, across the room from one another not talking. It was so special. Then, about 10ish we shut off everything and went to sleep. Yeah. That's how we roll on a Friday night with no kids. This morning I woke up with my 3 dogs all cuddled on my bed. Hubby had already left for work, so I got up, got dressed, went to McDonald's and got a frappe thingie then went to walmart. Then I picked up the spawnage. Mush missed me. That made me happy. The mom said she wanted to keep him. Then she mentioned how Jack was a "screamer" I had to explain that he has a little a LOT of anxiety, and hasn't quite learned how to manage it yet. Ahhh...5 year olds with anxiety and severe ocd are so much fun. So now I'm just hanging out with mush and the dogs, Jack passed out a while ago. Girls are at their friends for the night. So I guess now I should maybe straighten up my room since I do have a housing inspection on wednesday. Sadz.