Read Books, But Choose Wisely- Motherhood Without Warning

Read Books, But Choose Wisely

I love reading to my toddler daughter.  We read at least 5 books a day.  Most of which I get from the local library and I choose them based on suggestions I find online.  It makes it easier to just stop by the library and pick up your 'holds' of books that "people who know something about kids" suggested.

A couple of months ago I picked up Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy. This book is beautifully illustrated and gets great reviews. It tells the story of a baby brother who gets picked up by his sisters' bubble and he floats over the town causing much panic.

The thing is this book is rhythmic torcher and gives my speech and reading skills a major workout. I would cringe when she asked me to read it...every night.  All that rhyming and unusual words...a reading workout. It's a long book too.  With names like "crumpled Mr. Copple and his wife," "feeble Mrs. Threeble," and  "Greville Gribble" mixed into paragraphs that read like this:

"At the sudden call of trouble, Mother took off at the double,
for the squealing left her reeling, made her terrified and tense, saw the bubble for a minute, with the baby bobbing in it, as it bibbled by the letterbox and bobbed across the fence."

I have now read this book over 30 times, but now I read it as a personal challenge to get it perfect and keep my rhythm.  Read books, but choose wisely.

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My name is Kama and I'm a Mom...and that just freaks me out sometimes. I'm a bunch of other things that used to seem really important, but somehow being a Mom blurs those other things into mush. I have a 2-1/2 year old daughter and twin boys on the way. Everyday I have a "holy s**t, I can't believe I'm a Mom" moment and those get shared here.