The Bookworm Mom Struggle is Real: Read to My Kids or Read to Myself?

I'm reading one of my favorite books with my younger kids and as we read the delicious description of the wonderfully horrible Trunchbull last night, I found myself in a bit of a dilemma.  I was genuinely enjoying reading to my kids but I had been looking forward to bedtime all night so I could sneak away and read MY new book .  I realized I had discovered a main bookworm mom problem - keep reading to the kids or read for myself.  What a good problem to have!  In the end I read until the kids' really had to get to bed then sequestered myself in the bathroom so no one would bother me and read until I had to get to bed.  It was a good night.

(Oh, and Career of Evil is excellent.  I'm about a quarter of the way finished and normally by now I've got a pretty good handle on the bad guy in books like this, but not this time.  Rowling has given four possibilities and right now each is as likely as the next.  I love it when I can't figure the whole mystery right out of the box!)

The Struggle is Real

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Here Comes The Easter Cat!

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I just love good holiday themed picture books.  (And by good I mean they have charming art and tell a fun story.  What can I say, I'm easy to please.)  This book is appealing both art and story wise.  Simple, pleasant pictures and a faceless narrator tell the story of a cat who is jealous of the Easter Bunny.  It was also appealing because it's available both as a hardcover if you're one of those super together people who is able to plan ahead for holiday reading and a Kindle edition, if you're like me and it occurs to you the day before Easter that it would be fun to have a new Easter book.