Me Time :o)

Lily - posted on 04/24/2010

I went for my first mani-pedi in a YEAR since our second child was born. When my husband got home from work I had dinner and the kids all set up and he stayed with them for a few hours while I went out. It was so nice! my kids thought it was so wierd I had my fingers and toes painted they kept poking them... :)

Betty - posted on 04/11/2009

hmmmm i'm totally a romance kinda girl. lol. i love fiction roamnce, christina u were mentioning janette oke. i love her books! and i'v also read created to be his helpmeet! amazing book! i learnt soo much from it! i also really enjoy fiction about the amish. beverly lewis has some really good ones, cindy woodsmall as well. and a few others that i can't think of off hand. but yes i love to read!i guess i find the amish very interesting. we have some living really near by. the farm my husband works at is pretty much surrounded by amish! they're really nice ppl and have a very ineteresting way of living. the also have their own language, pennsylvania dutch is it? now i'm not even sure. anyway a lot of it is really similar to high german and i know german, mind u, i don't do much with the high german, mostly low german. i can't speak it great but i can understand it. do any of u know 2nd languages? sorry guys i'm just blabbin on and on. ;)

Amy - posted on 02/17/2009

I have also read Strong willed CHild and Dare to Discipline, I liked them also. 

Tikatia - posted on 02/17/2009

I've never read Bringing up Boys, though I have read Dare to Discipline and The Strong Willed Child by Dobson. I've wanted to read Bringing up Boys, since Shiloh is 8 and I totally don't get him. lol

Kristen - posted on 02/17/2009

Thanks! I'll look for that one!!!

Amy - posted on 02/17/2009

ohhh...i loved Bringing Up Boys. I need to read it again what with my boys getting older. A good reference book is Focus on the Family's Complete Child Care Guide. (I think that's what it is called). 

Kristen - posted on 02/17/2009

LOL!!! Learn something new everyday!!! I'm going to look into Lori Wick and Karen Kingsbury. I could use some Christian reading instead of the trash thats out there. Funny, I'm also reading "Bringing Up Boys" by James Dobson, and its really got me to consider what is on t.v. and stuff like that, so now I'm really starting to consider what I'm reading too....

Amy - posted on 02/16/2009

WOW! I love reading and I am little crazy about it, I get a little cranky if I haven't read in a while. Some days I look forward to the drs office so I can read! The Shack was great, and I like most of the other  authors mentioned too. Lori Wick, Karen Kingsbury are two others I like for Christian Fiction. 

Kristen, I did not know COmpany's Coming was Canadian! How sad since I am one. LOL.

Tikatia - posted on 01/27/2009

Yeah, The Shack was a really awesome book. lol I love most of those authors too...I tried reading romance once but wasn't too sure about it...though I do love Liz Curtis Higgs books and there like Historical Fiction Romance (ish?) lol.

Christina - posted on 01/27/2009

Lol, well, I'm not exclusively a romance person. I also like a bit of science fiction (Madeline L'engle, C.S. Lewis) and some fantasy (C.S. Lewis, Lloyd Alexandar, Tolkien). And I love the old classics (Jane Austen, Victor Hugo, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Louisa May Alcott, The Bronte sisters, Nthaniel Hawthorne, etc). I haven't gotten much into action thrillers, though. Oh, and I enjoy information books on things I love doing (like calligraphy and quilting). I've heard from another friend that The Sack is good; maybe I'll borrow it from her and exapand my reading some more. ; )

Tikatia - posted on 01/27/2009

I am definately not a romance novel type, lol I read action thrillers. I like Ted Dekker, I loved The Shack and Rescued. Right now, I am reading Lime 5 by Mark Crutcher, it is not a fiction novel at all.

Kristen - posted on 01/27/2009

LOL!!!! I love Janette Oke!!! I'm actually reading her book Drums of Change right now!!! And, reading cookbooks is my other guilty pleasure! My favourites are a series called Company's Coming. They are a Canadian series, but you can get them online. And all of her dishes are easy and tasty!!!

Christina - posted on 01/26/2009

I LOVE to read and sqeeze it in as often as I can. For fiction, one thing I really enjoy is books by Janette Oke. She writes sweet romances from a Christian perspective, so you get your romance fix with some substance. ; ) For non fiction, well, I like to read cookbooks. ; ) Another good book is "Created to be His Helpmeet" by Debi Pearl. I also enjoy the Bible Study books by Cynthia Heald.

Tikatia - posted on 01/20/2009

lol. no kidding right? i'm like the queen of multi tasking..it's hilarious.

Kristen - posted on 01/20/2009

LOL!!!, Tikatia, isn't it funny how we tend to multi-task in every thing we do since becoming parents, even in reading books!?!!!!!

Tikatia - posted on 01/19/2009

ohhh...that sounds like a cool book! I have to say that my husband is pretty good about making sure that I get "me time." We both are actively involved in the Leadership Team for our church's branch off Young Adult church, and he really makes sure that even though he tends to be the one with the big ideas and is definately the more vocal of us; I still get to go to meetings and include my two cents and we alternate. He also gives me time to read, or come on the computer. I have some great books that I'm reading, lol several at the same time too!! =0)

Kristen - posted on 01/19/2009

I love to read!!!!!! I spent a lot of time reading when we lived in Korea. It is soooo hard to find "me time" but I try to take at least 30 minutes for myself every evening. I'll have to look for that book!!! Reilly is only 10 months old, but I knew from birth that he was going to be a "wild man"!!!!