I'm Alive!

What a crazy 4 months it has been. My goal is to get my blog updated with what we have been doing the past 4 months. It may be a few posts but this is what has taken up most of my time lately.

READING!!! Who knew I would love to read and be totally board when I don't have a book to read. Here's my story:

In June we found out we were expecting number 6. Things were going great, in fact a little too great. I wasn't sick, didn't really feel pregnant at all much. A little tired, but I could handle it. I kept thinking, "I feel way too good". The dr. said the uterus was growing and things were fine. About a week later I had the very strong feeling that things were not fine. I was very nervous about it and had Seth give me a blessing. In the blessing, while I was hoping to hear and feel that the baby would be fine, instead, I felt like I would be okay and I would get through this. I knew then that there was no baby. I had a teary couple days and then when I got home from a reunion, I called the dr. and had an ultra sound ASAP. I was right, there was a sac but no baby. It's called a blighted ovum. Then next day I had a D and C.

While I was recovering, I watched so many movies I was sick of it, so when Sunday rolled around and I was staying home, I noticed a set of books my friend Jenn had brought over about 6 months before. She told me I couldn't return them until I read them. I was not a reader. The other reason it had taken me so long to read these books was it was the "Twilight" series.

There was SOOO much talk and excitement about these books and the movie that had come out that I was NOT interested in them AT ALL. I thought that I might like them but didn't want to read them because everyone was telling me I NEEDED to. I am sort of a rebel that way.

But with things sort of calm with Twilight, I thought, "Maybe now I can read them." So that Sunday I started reading. And by the time my family was home from church, I was hooked. I read the first book in two days. Seth was SHOCKED. My kids were saying things like "I have never seen Mom read." Or "Mom is reading AGAIN?!" Needless to say, I finished all 4 books in about 2-3 weeks. Then I read on stepheniemeyer.com her partial draft of "Midnight Sun."

I took a break for a while so my family and my house could recover. But I found myself board again and I wanted to read more. But what? Another friend let me barrow "The Hunger Games".

I read it in two and a half days. I wanted to savor it longer but I still found myself staying up until 4 a.m. reading. I loved it so much I bought it and "Catching Fire". Seth is now reading the first book and I am half way through the second.

I want to go read now but please leave a comment and give me some ideas of what book to read next. I don't want to be board.