summer goals

i usually try and have a running list of books i want to read. i look it over at the beginning of the year, evaluate where i am by summer and then see what i can finish by the end of the year then total up how many books i read. this year one of my goals was to read the little house on the prairie series. i am reading it along with an 11 year and an 9 year old from our church. we are bonding over laura ingalls. we all love her simplicity and joy in picking berries. i love the seasonality of their life. having just finished farmer boy, i love his love for the land and horses even at the age of ten.


in true, competitive fashion i am struggle with how to "calculate" this series. do i count each book as an individual book? do i count every two as a book? do i call the whole series one book? ah, the inner struggles of someone who likes to cross things of a "to do" list. funny where my pride comes out.... like why is it that important that i be able to count up the books i read. i know, i know. part of it is that it helps me feel like my brain has not turned into diapers and playdough. but really..... to keep a tally?! i laugh at myself, so feel free to laugh along.

this does not change how much i am loving little house and like most are shocked that i have never read them before. sweet pea will get these for her 6th birthday.... make a note of it.