Summer Reading!

What do you get when you combine 12 children and two summer reading programs. You get tons of paperwork for mommy
as she fills out forms for new library cards and the programs, lots of filling in of 1/2 hour "bubbles" and very
motivated children. My friend Esther has been staying with me while her husband is out of town. I LOVE having her and
her two daughters every chance I get. Yesterday we took the plunge. After researching which library system had the most
incentives, we went into Greenville County to the main downtown library. Now imagine my 15 passenger van maxed out
with riders, and going into the library and saying to the librarian, we are here to sign up for the summer reading program!
Remember, Patti had 4 to sign up too. No telling what stories that librarian had to tell her family that night about
who walked in 30 minutes before her shift was up. We looked like a school group! We also all went in to Barnes
and Nobles, where if they read 8 books they get a free book.

So today the children have been reading like crazy. Some of them have read for 3 1/2 hours today! It is also being read
to, so they have been listening to the Elsie Dinsmore book on tape as well. But, if they do the maximum, they get
Chick-Fil-A icecream
A Chick-Fil-A meal
Tickets to a water park or skating rink
and Tickets to a ball game!
Those are some pretty good incentives if you ask me.

Plus the mommies get a Starbucks coffee if we read 3 books. ☺

So tomorrow we plan on getting more books at the library just a few minutes from us, and they will have plenty of reading
time in our van when we leave the end of this week for our big July 4th trip to Nona and Papa's!