Book It

 Have you ever tracked the amount of time you spend doing a certain activity? I would be very interested to know how many minutes I spend doing laundry, or picking up hot wheels, or little dolls…. Although perhaps it’s best not to know.

Simon has become an avid reader. That is an understatement. His teacher “doesn’t give any E’s for the first report card” yet he has one for reading. The past two months his school has participated in the Pizza Hut ‘Book It’ program. His goal is 300 minutes a month, which sounds like a lot, especially on top of homework and of course the time-consuming business of being a young boy. But he has had totals of 600 and 800 minutes! That’s just the minutes that I caught him reading and remembered to write it down. I was going to attempt to capture every single minute this month just to see if he could break 1,000. But it’s the holidays, and we’re moving, and there’s still laundry and cooking and dishes. 

I think these times of reading are the best though, and I’m certain his sister would agree.