,Hello dear friends,
I have a chronic procrastrination habit. There, my secret is out with you. My reading habits are no exception to my multi-tasking-and-almost-never-fully-comleting-something-I-want-to-do for-myself pattern. When I saw this while browsing 5 minutes for mom for the Ultimate Blog Party, I thought 'why not?', 'maybe that will help you stick with something to read, at least'. However, this is no easy task.
Sometimes I return home exhausted and all I can muster the courage to do is read from my little book of night prayer. When I come home for a small midday break, I find it very relaxing to listen to Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear
by Max Lucado. I often dose into a 10 minute sleep that is a result of a more peaceful heart and a more confident approach to my day.When I feel the need for something uplifting with reagrd to my public image, then The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman
comes handy! It makes me aspire to some more feminine elegance and grace which is welcomed in our business. I can read little chunks of advice, and that is a good thing for my short attention span!My more constant state of mind, though, is playing pioneer woman. I think I have never outgrown Little House on the Prairie and all the narratives of female relatives about how the family settled in Milwaukee at the beginning of the last century, which is our family equivalent of driving or rather sailing to the Wild West. And as I grow older, I think , "why should I outgrow it?" My eldest came from her school trip yesterday (I must tell you all about it; they went to a ranch!) with a key chain that reads: "Growing older is inevitable; growing up is optional". Reading my feelings, is she?
So, for these times I keep next to me Prairie Tale: A Memoir,which is the memoir of Melissa Gilbert, aka Laura. What I did not know and I found out while writing this post, -which is not helpful for my reading habits- is that "Nellie" will have her own prairie life story published this summer! Her book is called Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated.Did you like Nellie at all (provided you are roughly my age and watched Little House as a young girl) ? I must admit I loved Laura's character the most, but I sympathised with Nellie quite alot, the major reason being her hair: it looked so much like the way my mother had my hair styled :/
Here is my challenge then for the coming month: Finish Prairie Tale before moving on to Prairie Bitch! Shall I make it? I shall keep you posted!
Read about more reading challenges right here.
