BOOKS | three sisters

My bedside table book stash! I know it's a little bit ridiculous. But generally I read more than one book at a time.

My current reading list (from top to bottom):

1. Les Miserable Volume One. By Victor Hugo. Need I say more?

2. Pollyanna. By Eleanor H. Porter. My Childhood favourite.

3. What Your Child Needs from You. By Justin Coulson PhD. Short and succinct - a book that I   

    wanted to underline almost every line in. It's that good.

4. Heaven is Here. By Stephanie Nielson. An incredible story about finding hope and keeping faith 

    after tragedy!

5. Deliberate Motherhood. Published by The Power of Moms. It includes many of my favourite  

    bloggers and even a piece written by me :)

6. Half the Sky. HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD. By Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn. 

    Not a book for the faint hearted. But 'A call to arms against the most shocking and widespread  

    human-rights violation of our age'. It will break your heart and inspire you like nothing else as the  

    authors journey through Africa and Asia introducing its reader to 'amazing women who have 

    overcome unimaginable hurdles in order to change the world'. 

7.The Secret Keeper. By Kate Morton. Read it! Mysterious, historical and multi-generational. Not 

    unlike her other novels that I have read and loved!

8. 5 Spiritual Solutions. By Richard and Linda Eyre. My favourite parenting authors!

9. Think. By Lisa Bloom. A must for every woman. Really. If you haven't read this book, please do!

10. DETERMINATION - Helen Keller. By Ann Donegan Johnson. One of the amazing Value books 

     in a series of 30. We had them growing up and I'm hoping to get a set for my little ones soon! (In  

     the mean time, I just borrow my mums books, or my friend who happens to also have the set)!

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ABOUT three sisters.  We are 3 sisters who share a love of all things photography and documenting our families.  On the last day of each month we have started a blog circle, where we each post a photo with the same theme, then share our images! February's theme - Books!

Find Melissa and her beautiful photography blog HERE

and Fiona (of the amazing photography due Deep Grey) HERE

Classics

Late night reading with my oldest. 

Pollyanna. My childhood favourite!

I am determined to raise these babies of mine on the classics. Beautiful (sometimes quirky) books that have characters whose values and beliefs are outstanding! 

Our favourite part so far; When Pollyanna met 'The Man'. I of course accentuated how excited she was to talk to him, and how grumpy and rude he was in response. It had us both laughing out loud!

When we've finished the book, we'll borrow the 1960's movie from my mum and watch Hayley Mills in her glory.

Rylan time

Parallel reading with just 3 of us........

The perfect way to spend time together once the other 'littles' are in bed!

Book GIVEAWAY!!

So sticking with the theme of  books we love (from the last post), I also love a GOOD parenting book. For my birthday last year I gifted myself with this one (Chad was away, so what's a girl to do. .miss out. I think not :)

This is definitely one of my FAVOURITE parenting books. I love it because it's so enjoyable and EASY to read. It's real, inspirational and offers practical and achievable ways to "Making Motherhood Magnificent" and finding joy in the little things. Even when the journey is sometimes crazy and hard! And don't we all know that Motherhood is at times both of those things :)

The truth is I want to give this book to everyone I know. That's how much I enjoyed reading it (and I am a BIG 'fan' of the Eyres and love Shawni's blog). Recently I 'acquired' a few more copies and thought it would be fun to give ONE away on this here little blog! After all this is my birth week as Chad calls it, so why not share the love (and the gifts :) right??

This will likely be my one and only 'giveaway' (which by the way Chad thinks is quite 'funny' that i'm doing, but it's my birthday so i'll CRY give one away if I want to :)  and since this post and the last one are really all about good books, why not???

  

So TO ENTER, leave a comment telling us either your favourite children's book or one of your personal favourites (for the record, Twilight doesn't count - even though we know we all love it, even if we don't admit it :)!!

Next Friday (which happens to be Chad's birthday) we'll randomly pick someone to RECEIVE the book :)

POST SCRIPT:  Just for the record (OK this is really to answer Chad's questions relating to the 'giveaway' :) the book is NEW, not my used copy, It is FREE and postage is NOT $25 as Chad suggested. there is NO postage cost.....It is a giveaway! If you (Chad) or anyone else have any other questions feel free to ask :)

Can't wait to hear your favourite books!!

Books we LOVE

We are serious book LOVERS in our house. We read everyday. Multiple times a day. I especially LOVE children's stories that have some kind of moral to them. Stories that we can talk about and learn a little something from.

Some of our current favourites (which do change regularly and are not all 'morally' based are.....

Green Eggs and Ham (read at least 4 times a week during our bedtime 'reading ritual' and great for helping Zahn try new foods that he assumes he won't like :)

Miko makes me laugh - it's a about a little mouse that wakes up early and wants to play with his mum but she wants to sleep a little bit longer (ahhh so appropriate for my current state in life :)

and then there's this one......

A cute story about appreciating that 'treasure' is not always what we think it will be!

and there's Gakky Two-Feet......

when we first got this one I thought it was going to go down the 'evolution' path but it didn't :) It's just a funny story about a monkey that's different and how he learns to accept his differences.

We call this one Stripes! Another funny book about being yourself  and not worrying about what others think (aaahhhhh to instill this message in my children :)

Then there's the Feelings books by Trace Moroney (ugh sorry about the quality of the pic - but you get the idea)

We often read the 'Angry' one when Zahn is 'about' to go into timeout or when he's just finished :)

And this one is one of my MOST favourites. EVER.....

We pretty much LOVE all of Max Lucado children's books and have been reading this one since Rylan was about 3.

If you don't have it, you should seriously go and get it. like right now. I promise it will become one of your favourites too!!

This little list of ours could probably go on forever so we'll leave it at that for now and say Happy Reading!!

PS) Rylan wanted me to add that all Pokemon, Zac Powers and Diary of a Whimpy Kid books are also on our favourites list :)!