The Book Chat- Book Lovers Confessions

Linking up with Jessica for The Book Chat.

~ Something amazing just happened to me. I found out that The Host will be in Theaters March 2013! This was the first dystopian book I ever read and I LOVED it. I am sitting here freaking out because I MUST see this movie! I may or may not have just squealed loudly...This book really opened the door for me to read other dystopian books. Here is the trailer that I stumbled across. Enjoy!...Oh, and go read the book!

~ I've loved reading for as long as I can remember. I started out reading The Babysitter's Club books. I collected almost all of them. I have no idea where they are now. 

~ In high school I pretended to hate reading those awful classics along with everyone else but secretly enjoyed soaking up every page of amazing literature. I had awesome grades in Literature and English...not so much in Math and Science. =)

~ My favorite book is a book I just read recently, The Book Thief. I borrowed it from the library. I need to buy it because I want to read it again...and of course OWN it.

~ I would rather read a good book than do anything else. I love books that suck you in and you think about them long after you've read the last page.

~ I didn't really like Fifty Shades of Grey. I read it because women were raving about it but maybe they raved about it because of all of the sex? The story to me..sucked...and if the story line isn't good there really isn't a point in reading it.

~ As much as I love books my collection is not that large. I get most of my books from the library.

And courtesy of Pinterest:

My how things change

I've been thinking a lot lately how different Noah's childhood and growing up will be from mine. When I was six I know I couldn't use a computer. Did we even have one? Did most people have one? I really don't know.  Noah knows how to log in to the computer, open the internet, and find his favorite websites. He likes reading eggs, Disney  and now we watch Santa's Reindeer here.

When Joey got a new lap top we set his old one up so that it would be kid friendly for Noah. When Joey got a new iPhone we gave Noah Joey's old one. Don't worry it doesn't work. All he can do is play games on it. I don't know how old he will be when I let him have an actual working phone. I was 16. I'm sure once he starts doing after school activities and spends more time at friends house I'll want him to have one so that I can reach him or he can reach me. But we aren't there yet.

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At the library one day I realized that Noah will never know what a card catalog is. He knows we search for books on the computer. I can remember walking up to the giant square full of tiny boxes that pulled WAY out. Each box was filled with tons of tiny cards. I'd flip through them until I found what I was looking for and write it down on a spare piece of paper with a teeny tiny library pencil.

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He will never know the agonizing wait and annoying sound the computer makes when trying desperately to connect to the internet. He'll never click a link and then go grab a snack while he waits for it to load. You click and MOST of the time are rewarded immediately with a new web page. I get angry when the computer doesn't do what I want it to do RIGHT AWAY! I think it's funny that it used to be no big deal for me to sit patiently and wait as my pages loaded ever so slowly. 

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I used to have so much fun when my mom would take us to the video store on a Friday night and let each of us pick a movie. I'd stroll the aisles searching for the perfect movie often finding something I had never even heard of before. Noah went to a video store a few times but he was very young and doesn't remember going. Now you get your movies from a redbox standing in the cold or rent them online and wait for them to arrive...

I guess things have always changed and they always will. My childhood was not like my mom's childhood. Noah's children will have an experience different from his. I can't imagine how different things will be by then...

Memory Lane - Germany

Recently I found out that my friend Jessica is moving back to Germany. We were stationed there together years ago and it was an amazing experience. I'm insanely jealous that she gets to go back! I started thinking about all of the fun times I had there and began looking through old photos. I loved it there!

I love you Germany!

Friday's Letters

Dear USPS,
I am disappointed in the substitute mailman you sent yesterday... 
Yesterday something a little disturbing happened. I was sitting in the living room and saw a mail truck pull in my driveway, heard a thud, and then saw the truck pull out of the driveway. I thought hmm that was odd. Maybe they left a package? I opened the front door and no package. Oh but what is that...way over on the opposite side of the garage? It's a package. So the mailman,thankfully this is NOT our regular mail person, pulled in the driveway and did not even bother to bring it to my door. He didn't even exit the truck. He just dumped it out the door of the truck. RUDE! If I hadn't looked outside and seen the package I would have run it over when I backed the car out. 
It could have been worse:

Dear Bella,

I am so glad you are back from boot camp! That was a long two weeks! It was definitely worth it though. I'm glad we can actually walk by another dog now without the barking and growling. Success!

Dear Noah,

I'm glad you share my enthusiasm for all things Christmas. I had a blast last night driving home and looking at all the Christmas lights with you. =)

Dear Amazing Friend of Mine,

I am so excited for you! Moving back to Germany! I am jealous. We had such an awesome time there together and I know you'll love it all over again. However it will probably not be as fun because I won't be there ;)

Dear Chuck E Cheese,

Please be kind. Noah's birthday party is tomorrow and I'm hoping to hold onto some of my sanity. Tons of screaming hyped up children all confined in one building is not my idea of fun.

*Side note- I worked at Chuck E Cheese in high school....for 2 1/2 YEARS! I'm not sure how I managed that.

Have A Great Weekend!

The Book Chat- Wish List!

Christmas is coming and this week Jessica wants to know what books are on our Christmas wish list.

I love books! I love all kinds of books. I thought at first that it would be hard for me to come up with a list of books I'd like because normally I go to a book store or library without a list in mind. I just browse the aisles and peek inside book after book until I find one I want to take home. I love receiving gift cards to book stores. I just really like the experience of finding and buying a book.

But this post is about a wish list so...

I'm a Harry Potter nerd, yes. I just love those books and that magical world. I do not own the books though...

The Divergent books are on my to read list. I've heard great things about them.

I've read the first book, Shiver, in the Wolves of Mercy Falls books. I want to read the other two!

Last but DEFINITELY not least I want the Delirium series Book1, Book2, and Book3. I LOVED the first book. The last book doesn't come out until March. I'm trying to wait to read the second book because I've heard it has a huge cliffhanger ending and I know I'll go crazy if I read it and have to wait until March to find out what happens. 

Happy reading friends!

Christmas is coming!

Christmas will be here before we know it. Thankfully we are almost done Christmas shopping. The gifts we have left are for those oh so hard to buy for people. We've been decorating, wrapping, and planning. I can not wait to see our families! Trust me I am counting down the days! Christmas is absolutely my favorite time of year. I love unpacking the decorations and remembering that the little snowman candy dish was one of the first things I bought for our first apartment at Christmas time or flipping through the old Christmas books and remembering when my mom read them to me.  I think this Christmas will be a little more hectic than the last few but I don't care one bit.

I drew the Santa chair for him...or tried to.

I think Bella is tired of posing for photos...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

7 years

Seven years ago today at 6:44 pm Noah was born. I really can't believe that he is seven. It really feels like just yesterday I was calling my mom in tears freaking out because I was sure his umbilical cord stump had fallen off to early. I'm flipping through his baby scrapbook and looking at his tiny hospital bracelet. How did that itty bitty baby turn into this little man? I miss his squishy cheeks and hilarious baby laugh. I'm so glad that I made the scrapbook. I have journal entries on each page. I'm glad I can read them anytime I want and remember all the little things I've forgotten over the years.

I didn't know loving someone so much was possible. He is my world. He is growing up faster than I'd like him too. I wish I could slow time down a little bit but I know that just isn't possible.

Happy Birthday Noah!