Hi! I am a 45 year old wife and mother. I work as a teacher assistant in an elementary school. I have recently returned to school to complete a bachelors degree in elementary education.



I absolutely love to read, for enjoyment. I am not a big fan of non-fiction reading. I do read a daily Bible devotion and the local newspaper, but the majority of my reading is fiction, for leisure and pleasure. Reading is and has been a major activity in our household since before our children were born. I read to my babies before they were born and continued religiously after they were born. My oldest daughter brought a stack of books taller than herself for me to read to her before bedtime when she was toddler. We had to limit her to ten bedtime stories. Her love of reading has magnified over the years. While many of our friends were paying their kids to read, limiting her reading time was a form of punishment for her. She is now in college and continues to read novels and old literary works. Upon graduation from the undergraduate program, she plans to pursue graduate school for library science.



My interest in reading has flourished in the past ten to fifteen years after my daughters were older and did not demand quite so much of my time. We participate in a summer reading program at our church library and I began checking out my own books after the girls were independently reading. The majority of my time is spent reading books by Christian authors Karen Kingsbury and Ted Dekker. I also enjoy Kristen Heitzman and Terri Blackstock. I just finished Karen Kingsbury's Take Three last week. Secularly, I enjoy reading books by James Patterson and Danielle Steele. I love mystery and real-life situational stories.



Reading assignments from this class will be much different from what I read for enjoyment. I found myself familiar with many titles as I glanced over the list of readings and authors. I hope to find them interesting and understandable. Even thought I work as a first and third grade assistant and am exposed to juvenile literary, it has been many years since my high school years of mature literary studies.