Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

Or, in other words, I survived another PTA meeting as president. Only 7 more to go! And as far as the week went, we did manage to sell some shirts at Literacy Night, which seems to have gone well, and the temple (and lunch after!) was lovely yesterday. Now we get to look forward to General Conference, even though it will be bittersweet. President Russell M. Nelson will be truly missed.

In the meantime, I finished reading a book I should have been able to finish in one sitting, if I hadn’t kept falling asleep. (That’s a commentary on my sleepiness, not an issue with the book.) Caroline Adderson’s Babble!: And How Punctuation Saved It is a simple punctuation parable with fun illustrations. Like Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth, it would make a poor read-aloud, as Adderson’s handling of punctuation marks is most definitely visual, but that hardly signifies, given that it’s more or less a picture book. I found it clever, actually, although not as wildly entertaining as Eats, Shoots & Leaves; then again, this is more accessible to any age. If you want to help your kids out with punctuation, definitely give this a try.

In the meantime, if you’d like to hear inspired counsel and testimonies of Christ this weekend, click here and tune in tomorrow at 10 am Mountain Time. We’ll be watching at our house!