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Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Friday, February 3, 2012

we're alive

Our girls love to read. Well, Lia loves to read, and Siena apparently loves to eat cardboard. We're working on it.

I have always had a huge passion for reading. I remember so many times crawling into my dad's lap and reading books with him. He would eventually let me read aloud and we would alternate pages or paragraphs or sentences. I always remember trying to breathe at the same rate as him, trying to mimic his patterns, trying to be just like him in that cocoon of learning.

I want so badly for our girls to have the same experiences. I want so badly for them to crawl into bed together and have Lia read Siena a book - because those moments will never be altered in their minds. They are such unique and special days... when you read a book with the ones you love.



I found a really cool print, and of course "pinned" it to my Pinterest account:


I'm shocked at how beautiful life is, at how alive I become at the sight of my beautiful daughters' smiles and hugs and kisses. I am blessed.




It is always shocking to meet life where we thought we were alone.  “Look out!” we cry, “it’s alive.”


Friday, April 22, 2011

a vid

 I just watched this video and got major chills - I have grown up with a great love of reading and of books and of words - and at times I fall into slumps where I don't read and savor the literary and poetic aspects of life that I wish I did. But I hope, with all my heart, that Lia and I will grow as readers together.. that we learn to express ourselves through words and through books - with all the yucky plotlines and the messy stories - and that we continue to unveil more of ourselves through all the reading and writing that we can muster.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

through the pages of a book


7/365

Cecilia loves reading [almost] more than food. Like, literally. She wasn't feeling 100% a couple of weeks ago (I think due to teething, but who knows?) and all she wanted to do the entire time she was under the weather, was read, read, read. It was crazy! She literally couldn't function unless she was near us, sitting on us, right next to us - with a book in hand. Of course, Mike and I (and her amazing volunteer babysitters) have to have immense patience to read the same book 3,456,786 times, but hey - who can resist the cute puppy dog eyes?? Here are she and Nina - enjoying a goodie :) Life is sweet.

"But Mariella just smiled as she skipped down the road.. because she knew all the secrets in her world." ~Kate Nash

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