Maybe it is like child birth: with distance the remembrance of the painful act is not so bad? More than half of DD's life has been devoted to books and I made the mistake of reading Dr. Seuss very early to her because I found the board books boring. :P Stupid me! I had NO IDEA that this kid would become obsessed with books, but I should have known when DD was 4 months old and I recited a Sandra Boynton book just because it was engraved on my mind only to have DD smile and say again that I was in serious trouble!
When we went on trips the only thing I needed to remember was her little stuffed dog, a mini doodlepad and books. Made packing easy but meant I had to spend most of the flight reading to her and hope someone on the other side would take over so I could enjoy my trip. Thank goodness for a teenager who is also obsessed with books!
But somewhere along the way her interests shifted and we weren't reading that many books anymore. We are back to books now but because she is reading on her own. I still have to sit there with her but at least I don't have to read all the tongue twisters.
