Sharing some books that are reminding me to slow down. For the past few months, without realising it, we’ve been constantly been doing stuff. Every day I try to have something planned for E and with this recent heightened alert, it made me realise that we need to kind of slow down. without classes to go to, we don’t have much choice except for just taking walks outside which is really nice I must say.
I’ve been meaning to get the Slow Down book for a while. The moments in the book are really nice. When we go for our walk we’ll remember the moments we’ve read about and we’ll talk about it or we’ll look for a moment we had while outside and read about it when we get it. Noticing these moments during our walks has been great, there is more we can talk about. We’ll slow down and take a moment to notice things. Most of the time it’s a great opportunity for us to talk more about things, or for E to ask more questions.
I’ve also been seeing recommended books for Spring so I got these other three books. We’ve been talking, reading about seasons, nature, life cycles a lot more lately so these books are a great addition to what we’ve been into.
Even though we don’t get to experience seasons here, it is still nice to introduce seasons to E. Books are definitely helping in opening up our small world, especially with the virus. It has also been really nice to see how much E likes reading, to be read, to listen to us read to him, or just to look at the books by himself. Sometimes I can even hear him “reading” by himself. It’s also cute when he attempts to read. It's amazing how he will remember the story, the words and he will try to read out loud. His mind is so absorbent, it just absorbs everything and it’s amazing. I really hope that his interest in books will continue and it will grow and it will stay with him as he grows.
And every time we read, I feel like we are slowing down. Slowing down and noticing moments in our lives. I just wish I have more time to read my books though :)
till next time, M
