Well, I am slightly less verklempt today than I was Tuesday. Despite Staplegate (It’s huge!!) and half full classes due to a pandemic of Spring Breakisnextweekitis I am in the home stretch now – papers are graded, midterm grades are submitted and Spring Break Is NExt WEEK!!! (I’m not very excited…no, not excited at all!)
Thorin’s much better today too!
Source
The SpReAd the Love Children’s Book Challenge is wrapping up, although we might have a couple of posts trickle in from time to time. Mini Me was so excited about her guest appearance that she mentioned the challenge to the members of her reading group at school. Three of her colleagues have also provided me with memorable titles – Mini-Me forgot the questions, so all I’ve got are the titles. (I am omitting the names of the contributors in the interests of not creating little girl drama that becomes intra-parent drama)
Meet Felicity (the first in a series about the Revolutionary War era American Girl Doll who has since been “archived” – sounds very ominous!)
Beauty and the Beast (A timeless classic reinvented by Disney for a new generation…)
Meet One Direction (I would rather not contemplate why this book is so meaningful to the 8 year old set)
MiniMe and I will donate these three titles in addition to the books that we highlighted to the Half Price Books Half Pint Library Book Drive – they will match our 6 donations with an additional six, making a dozen books that will be distributed to needful readers in the local area. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy!
Including book challenge posts from Servetus, alyssabethancourt, Fanny and Jazzy Jr. we added 17 kindnesses, so our new grand total of donated kindnesses and books is 281! Jazzybaby1 and I have been really thrilled at everyone’s response to the SpReAd the Love idea and we hope that you will all continue letting us know about kindness you give or receive. The world can be a really ugly place sometimes, but every person who reaches out, in even the smallest way, is doing his or her part to make it better. Looking ahead, we’ll have a few more challenges and some fun and games to keep the ball rolling.
Ancient Armitage 
Reblogged this on Me + Richard Armitage and commented:
The results of the book challenge, with more kindness challenges promised!
Thanks for the reblog!! 🙂
Staplegate *lol*. But pat yourself on the back now – grading done and submitted, you have earned your break.
Cool that the book challenge has spread to Mini Me’s friends. One Direction is worrying 😀 but hey, they’ll grow out of that…
Congrats on a successful run for this campaign. Very impressive – and fun, too!
from dolls to boybands in one small sampling…
Staplegate is a shocking conspiracy that must not be tolerated!! 😀
I hope you enjoy spring break next week. I am enjoying mine from college this week, but still got to go to work. But no homework this week, plus the weekend the boys will be gone during the day.
Welk, break started off with a bang when Mini Me yacked all over her bed last night…she didn’t call “daddy” …goos thing, that would have only made twice the mess 🙂
The empty house is a beautiful thing from time to time isn’t it?!