As part of my birthday celebration yesterday, daughter Bard and I spent the evening at Borders Books. My mission was to find Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne for Sweetheart's sixth birthday, which is tomorrow. I found it after searching the shelves three times, going to the computer to see if it was in stock, seeing that it was, and searching the shelves again. It was wedged between several other books and hiding coyly. It will now reside on Sweetheart's bookshelf, starting tomorrow. Spending time on that search gave me the opportunity to peruse the shelves more thoroughly. Boy, did I find some goodies! I brought home the next Magic Treehouse book for Monet, a couple of bargain books for Sweetheart's birthday, and Mary Jane's Farm and Country Home magazines for me! But the biggest goody I found was the little slips of paper and the posted signs promoting this weekend's educator's sale! April 15th-17th Borders will offer all educators 25% most things. The fine print says, "Discount applies to the regular price. Discount on DVDs is 15%. Discount on electronics and video games is 10%. Excludes previous and online purchases, gift cards, periodicals, comics, special orders not in stock, and shipping. May not be combined with coupons or group discounts." There's an educator's reception on Friday. Check your own Borders or Waldenbooks to find out the details. I asked a Borders employee what I needed as a homeschool, and he said that I simply needed to bring my excusal letter. Boy oh BOY!
One of the goodies that I found and will surely bring home was Everyday Graces by Karen Santorum. Has anyone else seen this book? Wow! It's kind of like The Book of Virtues but specifically for manners. It was written by a homeschool mom of seven and wife of Rick Santorum, U.S. Senator.I saw so many other goodies I wanted. Ooooh, how I love to read aloud to my kids! But we still haven't finished Mandy by Julie Andrew which we started in January!!! I have so many other good read alouds that I want to do, but even our Five in a Row routine is waaaaaay behind due to all of the out-of-the-home activities we've been doing.
Still, I love being busy. It's better than being bored!
What's on your reading list today?
