YES, YES, YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you love to read, or loved to read as a kid, or love a good series...The Babysitter's Club, Sweet Valley, or even Goosebumps...then this is for you!!! Or maybe you're a reading specialist...this is freaking EXCITING news..or at least to me.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/books/31babysitters.html?_r=2


!!!!!!!!!

I was/am obsessed with this author/series. I owned all of them (well I still technically do, they're in Dublin in my old room) and still enjoy rereading them. They basically define my childhood. It was not long ago that I begged two pre-teen girls to start reading them at the library. They turned up their noses to them! Our library doesn't even carry them in hardback..only paperback and they don't have a barcode, so when they get checked out they can't track who has them..so you basically own a book for free. ???

Anyway, I just love how the new books are going to be aimed at a lower grade level...umm. HELLO read-alouds!!!!! I just know my 16 boys will have to love them too...haha! There were 2 boy characters I think.

Anyway, obviously, this news just thrills me. I am having the best day anyway. My kids were amazing today...super smart and on their best behavior. They did their independent morning work perfectly this morning, and mastered every one of my last minute efforts to assess today. I left school at 3:45...you should be proud (as my new year's resolution is to leave by 4:00 every day except for Thursday)! And I even have supper cooking so it will be ready shortly after Matty gets home from work.

I haven't finished watching The Bachelor yet (we taped it), so maybe I'll do that tonight after our nightly walk around "the summit club"! I don't think I have any shows coming on tonight. I will say that Make It or Break It was GREAT last night and probably my favorite show right now! I just love womens sports and Pason is such a champion! Report cards, however, are still killing me...it's those dang comments!! Do my parents even read them? :) Oh well, better get to writing!