Monday feature: What I'm Reading

I am finally getting it together on this Monday. I have decided what color to paint the kitchen, taken out all the nails in the wall, spackled the holes and even did some cleaning. I am even ready to share about the most precious book I have read in a long time.

Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis is a wonderful children's book about, well, the title explains it all. It is almost a picture book- there is only one line on each page. Here is the summary from the author:

When a young girl asks her parents about the first night of her life, she wants to know every detail. Was she tiny and perfect? How did her parents feel during their first night together? Why had her mommy and daddy decided to adopt her? Funny, tender, and altogether exuberant, here is one family’s celebration of their first cherished moments together.

I have so many favorite lines: Tell me again how you held hands all the way to the hospital and when you got there you both got very quiet and felt very small. . . Tell me again about the first time you held me in your arms and called me your baby sweet. Tell me again how you cried happy tears. . . Tell me again how you carried me like a china doll all the way home and how you glared at anyone who sneezed [they were in an airport]. . .Tell me again about the first night you were my mommy and you sang the lullaby your mommy sang to you.

With our first home study visit over and our second one on the way, I have been reading lots of adoption books. Kids books, adult books, fiction, nonfiction. This is my favorite so far. And Kirst- I know you will love this book!