So Yes I'm a Reader

Like I said, I love to read and thought that it would be a good idea (in my mind anyway) to let everyone know what I am reading and what I think about the book that I read prior. So I might end up blogging alot because I read a lot!!

So, I am currently reading Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr. It is the second book in a series of I don't know how many books right now. It is about the existence of the Faery world and Faery courts and the interaction with them and humans. The Main Characters name is Aislinn but so far it seems that this book is geared around Aislinn's best friend Leslie. I don't want to say to much about the book and give anything away. But It's a great series and I certainly enjoy it. You can find out more about the books and the author at her website at this link: http://www.melissa-marr.com/index.php .

Now, a little about the book that I just finished reading. First of all this is another series as well. If you can't tell I'm a series reader. If any of you have heard of the series on HBO called True Blood, this is the series of books they got that from. The first book in the series is called Dead until Dark by Charlaine Harris. Now I will admit I had a hard time getting through this book, up until the last couple of chapters but lets just say that I am super glad that I soldiered on and kept reading the book. The series is about a time when vampires become known to the general public and have to suffer the same unrighteousness that black people had to suffer. The main Character in the book, Sookie Stackhouse, who is a telepath, finds herself falling in love with a vampire who just recently comes to her very small Louisiana hometown. Throughout the book Sookie seems to find herself in these predicaments where her vampire has to save her life...or maybe it was Elvis.... The second book in the Series, called Living Dead in Dallas, tells a story of Sookie getting "loaned out" to the Dallas vampires and what its like to live in a place where your kind isn't wanted. The second book was very very easy to get through and I believe that I read it in a day and a half...and I have 5 kids.

I plan on reading Club Dead, which is the 3rd in the Sookie Stackhouse series, when I am finished with Ink Exchange but my list of To Be Read Books changes from day to day.

Happy 12th Birthday Cody

My Step son turned 12 years old today. And I can honestly say that he is turning into a really great young man. I asked him what he wanted for his birthday and he told me jeans because he was getting to big for his. So of course I told him that was something that Mommy just bought you not something that you asked for for your birthday. All in all I think that he had a pretty good time. He got a super nice MP3 player from his grandma and grandpa and it is of course attached to his ears already.

Sometimes I think that maybe I baby them just a little to much. I don't allow them to run all over town and I have to know where they are going and they better be there because I will check. Of course all of you are saying, no that is just you being a good mom, but I think they might be suffering because I'm too over protective. They really don't have a lot of friends and I don't know if its because of something they are doing or if it's because I dont' allow them to go hang out uptown with other kids.

They play sports and seem to get along well with the other kids on the team but they just don't make "real" friends. Now the hubby tells me this is common with boys that they have a lot of people that they call friends, but I don't know.

Ok any way today was a pretty good day. And I am sooo ready for them to go to bed.

A Day In The Life

So this is my first go at really blogging. I have had an online journal for quite sometime located at www.coolerparents.com but haven't done the real blogging thing yet.

This weekend went way to fast and It really should only be Sunday. You know when you have those weekends when you and hubby don't argue and everything gets done around the house. Those are the weekends that just move way to fast.

The older kids had their first archery tournament on Saturday, so that was an all day ordeal in its self. But things went fairly smooth...Not to bad for a school who has never done one of these tournaments before. I am chairwoman of the fundraising committee so I was responsible for finding people to work the admissions booth, and to sell the t-shirts and now I have to make some raffle tickets for a Matthews LX compound bow. Such fun such fun. Any how Cody shot a 171/300, Ashley a 147/300 and Tyler a 135/300. Not to extremely bad for children that have never shot a bow before.

Sunday was our lazy day. We just sat around the house and relaxed. We don't get to do that very often.