GOOD MORNING!

Well, it's Saturday. Yesterday was the first day of spring break. While that means I will not be called into work as the schools are closed for the next week, it also means my kids are home all week. It also means, I get to write old school style with pen and paper in the randomest of places. Do you think they would frown on me writing at the zoo?

You may say a good mom would put her writing aside for the week and focus diligently on her children. They are only going to be little once, right? I understand that they will grow up and move out of my house someday and I will look back at the time I sat at this computer typing away and wish I had spent more time with them. Honestly though, doesn't EVERY parent everywhere do that in some aspect of raising kids. I wish I didn't work so much. I wish I had hugged them more. I wish I had taken them more places.

The way I see it, I am forcing my children to be self-sufficient for a few hours a day. So many children are catered to day and night, that many can't do simple tasks such as pour a bowl of cereal or find a way to entertain themselves. Forcing my children to do so while I pound away at this keyboard, does two things. It prepares them for a world where no one will be there to wait on them hand and foot and allows me to create some glimmer of insight or fantastic fiction to send into the universe!

I'm sorry. That soap box is just so hard to ignore. My point? You will probably not hear from me much this week! But don't worry, I will be writing! Hey, I may even post a few reviews of the places I go! There are some wonderful parks in Kansas!

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Read 2015

What?! Two posts in one day? Relax I stole this from Book Attic. (Seriously, copy and paste and everything. Shh don't tell.)

I am setting a goal for myself this year to read 50 books. I will most likely increase as I go. Also, I will be trying to complete the 2015 Reading Challenge.

The goal is to read:

• A book with 500+ pages Game of Thrones
• A classic romance
• A book with antonyms in the title
• A book that became a movie
• A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit
• A book published this year
• A book that came out the year you were born
• A book with a number in the title
• A book written by someone under 30
• A book with bad reviews
• A book with nonhuman characters
• A trilogy
• A funny book
• A book from your childhood  A Princess Bride by William Goldman 
• A book by a female author
• A book with a love triangle
• A mystery or thriller
• A book set in the future
• A book with a one-word title
• A book set in high school
• A book you can finish in a day

I will cross off the goal AND add a book book title in red as I go! Top that Mak!

Hey! Let's make this a challenge. Can you finish your list before I finish mine?