Hanging Out

It was our Sunday to serve, Regan serves in the 2 year olds, she loves playing with the little kids! I serve with 2nd-5th graders and Riley does the Tech Booth in the class where I am, and David does Campus Support now (finally delivered from Parking Team, yay!) So after church, Riley went home with a friend, Regan and I went to lunch, and then home to wait on David. After our ritual Sunday afternoon nap, we thought we would take Regan to the bookstore to hang out for a bit before we went to get Riley. We thought we would stop at Garden Ridge first and check out the Christmas stuff.

They have SO much Christmas there, it's everywhere! We saw the biggest inflatable Snowman and Santa Claus ever! They were huge. We checked it all out, got a great present for a white elephant party we have coming up, and then went to the bookstore to hang out some. Regan is wanting this huge book called "Wonderstruck" and I don't know much about it except for it's HUGE and this is my dyslexic, non-reading kid. But, it might end up being a Christmas present. I want to encourage her to read as much as possible. She's been getting a lot better with her reading also.

 

Anyway, it was fun just hanging out. Brought back memories of sitting at the bookstore when the kids were younger and would play with the trains. Then we had a quick dinner at Chili's and headed home to get ready for the short week of school.

If You Read One Book This Year...

And you're a parent, it should be this one: Parenting With Love and Logic. The author, Foster Cline, taught a seminar at our church on Saturday and I can't say enough good things about it. I've been reading the book to prepare for the seminar, so I knew what I was getting in to. The school that the kids go to, the teachers use his method, and have read his book, Teaching With Love and Logic, which uses the same basic principals. Basically, it's about how to raise responsible kids, kids that you will want to be around when they grow up, and that will be functioning adults. I could write about 3 pages of things I learned, but I won't bore you, but really, if you are looking for any type of parenting advice, I can't recommend him highly enough.

And, I've never laughed so hard, it was an all day seminar, and I didn't want it to end! I was so sad it was over, and even after having such a busy week and having to get up early again on my only day to sleep in, I was so exhausted, but so not wanting to leave, I could have sat there and listened to him for hours. He has so much wisdom to impart, and I just want SO much for my kids to grow up to be likable, responsible people, I'll read anything, I'll do anything to make sure that happens. And this guy has had such great success, being a famous child psychiatrist for many years, and having 7 successful children of his own, I would say he knows a thing or two about raising responsible kids! So, if you are looking for good parenting advice, read this book!

If you read TWO books this year, the other book you really should read is The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch, but only if you have a box of tissue handy. But that book too, will change your life.