The Diary of MY Wimpy Kid

I know I'm breaking some HUGE parent code by reading my son's journal, and even worse, by posting it on my blog. But I just had to, it was too funny not to. Plus, he left it on my desk, and after staring at it for like a whole minute, debating if I should read it or not, I figured... he was practically asking me to, by leaving it there.

He made a new years goal to start a journal. Here are his first 2 entries (complete with his spelling):

January 5, 2013

Saturday

Ok. To start of with my journal, today is offisily the worst day of my life. for Christmas I got a 3DSXL. I only owened it for 10 days and I got it tooken away. OK, OK, I know your looking for more info about this. But it all started when we were cleaning our play room and I bent his, or I should say my brother's plastic toy axe and he yelled and elboud me in the sholder so I told on him and my dad totaly Lost it. I told on him alot befor that and we were not listening, and being so bad. So my Dad took away all of our toys, well not all of them. I have a bunch of legos in a drorw on my desk. I cried so hard that I got a non stop headake. I layed in bed for about an hour and my mom said we could get out if we cleand our room, trust me it wasn't that dirty. When we were done I had to vacum our room.

Tusday Jan 22nd, 2013

I keep forgeting to wright in here so here I am. In the 27 days since I wrote in here, things are going well. I got my toys back to.  So at school the person that sits next to me threw up and luckily she didn't get it on my stuff. 

Wasn't that just so funny?  Overall, I was impressed with his writing. (Spelling needs a little work, but we'll get there!)  I was also impressed that on the "WORST DAY OF HIS LIFE" he never said that he hated us or that we were mean. He told why they got in trouble, and recognized that they did something wrong, maybe it might have worked!!   

NOW, DON'T ANY OF YOU DARE TELL ME KID I DID THIS. K?? THANKS:)  

Charlie's Girl

 

I wanted to tell you about this really great book I read. It's called "Charlie's Girl."   

Seriously, just trust me- GO BUY THE BOOK! It's available on Amazon or at Deseret Book.

It's a story about a 14 year old girl, named Rosalind, who's parents died when she was an infant and has lived in foster care in Phoenix her whole life. She lived a life not knowing anything about her family or where she came from.   Meanwhile in South Carolina, her Grandmother Grace is searching for her Granddaughter, not really knowing anything more than her name. She finally located Rosalind in the foster system and sent for her.

Through a family history assignment in a history class, Rosalind and Grace grow to understand and eventually love each other.  Rosalind is trying to discover who she is, while Grace struggles with how much of her parents story she wants to share with the young girl.

It's such a beautiful story of family, and self discovery. You feel the fear Rosalind feels at being in yet another home. It has heart ache, and a little mystery, it's also a beautiful introduction to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as Rosalind meets a Mormon friends and starts to learn that there is a possibility that she can see her parents again.

I loved this book! I was sad when it ended... I turned the final page, just ready to read more!

SO GO READ IT! Seriously, SO GOOD!