In So Many Words

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
* Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists!

My Teaser

If I type fast, I may still get this posted on Tuesday.

A couple of weeks ago, my son came home from school raving about a story that the school guidance counselor had read to his class. He even referenced it later when we were reading bedtime stories and continued to talk about the concept days later.

I got the name of the book from her and immediately ordered it for him – it arrived today and he was excited to see it (this from a kid who thinks all surprises should be toys!). We read it together and he stopped me several times to explain more about it.

So, what is this miraculous book that has helped us break the barrier of perspective-taking? It’s called Have You Filled a Bucket Today?, written by Carol McCloud and illustrated by David Messing. There are several other related titles, but I got this one since it is the version used in his class.

Here are a couple of sentences from the book:

A bucket filler is a loving, caring person who says or does nice things that make others feel special.

But guess what . . . when you fill someone’s bucket, you fill your own bucket too!

I guess this turned into more of a review than a teaser, but that’s okay! For more teasers or to submit your own, visit Should Be Reading.

For today’s Try This Tuesday, I’m talking about expected behaviors and perspective-taking. Not too deep for this early in the morning, I hope! This is something that has come out of Michael’s sessions with the psychologist I recently started taking him to. I’m so thrilled to have found her and want to share more of what I am learning and how Michael is doing here, but in the meantime please pop over and read more about it.

So I was catching up with my Google Reader today (since I hadn’t even turned on my computer since Friday and was feeling serious withdrawal pains) and saw that 5 Minutes for Mom had yet another giveaway, this one for a $50.00 gift certificate to Tiny Prints. Just as I was thinking about how many giveaways they have had lately, my eyes landed on another post, this one announcing their newest site, 5 Minutes for Giveaways. And their first item up for grabs is a Kodak Digital Picture Frame!

I know things have been pretty light around here lately. Between us taking turns being sick and decorating/shopping/etc for the holidays, I haven’t had much time to sit and process all the things that have been going on inside of me. My company is also considering layoffs for the first time in its history, and my husband’s job has become quite stressful due to a variety of circumstances, so daily life is definitely taking up more than its fair share of my time!!

But things are good, and even if they aren’t at times, God is good and He will provide. (Okay, rambling over, you may now return to your regularly scheduled programming!)