I am thinking about doing some posts this year about things I'm learning as I'm learning them. I'll still have those "crap, I spilled coffee everywhere" failure posts too, but I think these others might take up more of my blogging space.That said, I was reading Psalm 37, one of my go-tos, and had to stop at verse 7: "Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him..." Being still is not something I'm very good at. I am a person who feels very compelled to DO things, especially if I've made a list of things to do and am now currently checking those things off my list. I might sit for a minute, but then I'm up again doing something else. It's hard for me to just be still. It doesn't feel very productive. Bastian (my almost-2-year-old son) recently got a toddler bed and has honestly done really well with it. But since the New Years' fireworks scared the crap out of him, he has been scared to go to sleep alone without o
When I was in elementary, we had a collection of kids' abridged classics. The thing is, I didn't know they were abridged. And, after reading through all the Nancy Drews and other things I was interested in, I needed something "bigger" to read. So around age 11 or so, I got interested in the classics. I remember looking at the stack and being excited to read Treasure Island, Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, Around the World in 80 Days, etc. So, I started reading and was like... ok these aren't so hard. I don't see what the big deal is. And then... And then. I discovered that these books WERE NOT THE REAL BOOKS. I was furious. I had been tricked! The nerve! Who pays money for fake, incomplete books?? (I was in full-on "speak to the manager" mode... a miniature vesrion of "Janet", if you will) Deciding never again to be fooled by the publishers of these imposters, I went in search of the real thing, and I started collecting unabridged classic