Books!

I really love books.  I think my kids love books too.  Can you guess the one place they ask to go every week?  Yep, the library!  Well McDonalds too, but I try to ignore that one.  We try to make a weekly trip to our public library and every Sunday we stop by the church library and get more books.  I love that Ethan loves to read.  In fact, he's a lot like me.  Once he starts a book he hates to stop.  We've had to make rules for reading because we love it so much.  The first rule is no books in the bathroom.  I think that is pretty self explanatory.  The next rule is no reading while eating.  I can't tell you the number of times we'd be sitting at the table eating only to realize that a certain boy had his nose in a book. 
My reading rule (for myself) is no fiction.  At least not while school is in session.  I can really lose myself in a good story, so it's just best for me to limit my fiction. So here's what I'm reading right now:

• The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home by Susan Wise Bauer - I'm not necessarily following a classical model to our homeschool but there is a lot a like about classical education.  It's been a great resource.
• In Step with God by Charles Stanley - I'm just getting into this one, but I think it's going to be good.  In the introduction he says his prayer is that we'd pray as Moses prayed in Ex. 33:13, "Let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight."  It really is my desire to know God, not just about Him.  
• The Rewards of Simplicity by Pam and Chuck Pierce - some great principles but not exactly what I thought it would be.  I do like how they define simplicity on page 37.  "The purpose of simplicity is not to prune away those things that bring us joy and enrich our lives.  Instead, the purpose of simplicity is to streamline our lives in such a way that we have more room, time and energy for the pursuits and people that God ordains for us."
• Wild at Heart by John Eldredge -  I just read through this book a month or two ago and want to go through it again.  It was really good.

What are you reading right now?