::Serendipity::

Enlightening Maggie Time ________________________________________________________________

Saturday was my time with Maggie. She's been looking forward to it for a week and so have I. I try to take the kids out for one on one time as I've probably mentioned millions of times before! Maggie really needed it.

Our Old Navy is having a crazy sale. 50% off the 50% off price. Which usually figures out to be 75% off, but they make it sound so huge when they say 50 off the 50. I left with bags of stuff for everyone. It was insane! I couldn't afford not to. I got everyone a new coat for under ten bucks. Maggie had fun getting some new things. She loves shopping! She's such a girl! I love it.

We hung out at Barnes and Noble for a while (hot chocolate at Starbucks by the fire!). And then went out for a little something to eat. She's usually so quiet when it comes to talking about herself. She doesn't like to tell me what's been bothering her, but she's been opening up more and I learned a lot of important little things from her.

For example, before my friend Sandi moved away, she gave us a lot of her old books including a big collection of Garfield. Maggie was very excited about it. Reading has always been a challenge for her. It's getting easier now, but she's still not quite up to her "level" yet. She'll get there. I was so happy that she was excited about these books! I'm always buying her books she thinks she likes at the time, but then she doesn't like it for whatever reason. I thought Garfield would be great, but she deserted them too. She loved Sisters Grimm, but she said the print was too small, even with her glasses and a few of the words are too big and discourage her. She likes another series, but she's missing book 6. I gave her books 7 and 8 for Christmas. Ooops! She finally fessed up to why she won't read Garfield. Timmy likes them. Not just likes them. Loves them. He reads them in bed at night and all day long. He's sitting next to me reading one right now! Maggie wanted them to be her thing. I have always made the kids share books, but I can see how she'd be disappointed. It must be hard to have two brothers and two sisters and think something was going to be your deal and have it kind of taken away. Now I have something to work on! She still responds with "I'm not sure," when I ask her what's wrong of why she doesn't like something a lot, but we're making progress.

She also told me some things about Emily that I'll have to go into tomorrow. It's time to read to the kids and get them ready for bed. Michael is still at work. He had a meeting tonight at 8PM. Which is okay because he's taking most of tomorrow off. YES!

posted by Terri at 1/14/2008 08:08:00 PM >6 comments

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