Throwback Thursday :: Reading Makes Me Happy!

Originally posted 8/30/2011

Rediscovering my love for reading.

Over the last six years since becoming a mama
I haven't really had an interest in reading books.

It's been just too much to try
to fit in reading
with my two little monsters
needing so much of my time.

Well, my love for reading
has been rekindled.
I suppose that they are getting older
and suddenly, my life has
room for books.

I don't have the luxury of sitting down
to read for huge chunks of time
so I find myself stealing moments
to soak in the story.

Slowly, as the week passes
I read the book in quick spurts throughout the day.

While waiting in the car line
to pick Griffin up from school,
I give Koen a book to thumb through
in the backseat and we both
take a minute to read.

I am a voracious reader
who gets pulled into the story easily.
My mind wanders to the characters often.

While doing household chores I will
think of the story and before I know it,
the dishwasher is only half loaded
and my feet are propped up while I read.

Sometimes I can't sleep
because the book is calling to me.
I snuggle up in bed and yawn
and read and rub my eyes and read some more.

As the boys play outside
and my cranky cat begs for attention,
I shut out the world
and get lost yet again in the story.

It's as if some the best parts of me
that were lost in Motherhood
are slowly coming home.