My niece, Alyssa, has been stopping by my house for a few days now. She is just going to be starting high school so she can’t drive yet. After we hang out for a while, my Mom drives her to gymnastics. She is an excellent gymnast who has been doing it for most of her life!
I love speaking with her because, like me, she loves to read! I had so much fun speaking with her about books today and we figured out that we have similar tendencies when it comes to reading. I told her it’s because we are both, “Rios girls.” We both laughed at things we do that in are similar like we both love the smell of books and putting the bookmark in your book and then turning the book over so you are staring at the top of it to see how much you have read. She does the same thing!
My Mom recently bought me a bookmark that sits in a book that is taking me a really long time to read! I use my friend’s Christmas card from last year where it shows pictures of her kids as my other, “Bookmark.” I received a book in the mail yesterday and I needed to find a third, “Bookmark.“
I looked around my living room to see some sort of paper to use as my new, “Bookmark.” The picture of my Dad and me and my high school graduation is my new bookmark! I am ABSOLUTELY loving the book I got in the mail yesterday! I have been reading it all day long!
Every so often though, I have to put the picture of my Dad and me into the book and close it to give my eyes a little rest. MS really stinks! I only give myself some time until the green leopard print fades before I can pick up the book again! This is really a, “Win-Win” situation though! Each time I pick up at the book to begin reading again, I get to see the picture of my Dad and me at my high school graduation that I just ran across a few days ago!
Each time I place the picture back into the book, you KNOW I have to turn it over so I can see the top and see how far I have read! Just like Alyssa! That makes me smile! I only wish I could read the book faster!