Book Review

One thing I would like to be better about doing is reading more than watching television. This has become a serious conviction of mine over the past several months. I work out of the home baking for people; sometimes I am busy and other times I am not. The times I am not are the frustrating ones. Most mornings I create a to-do list of my chores and errands. Then I proceed to eat breakfast and watch a little morning news. After breakfast, I will spend some time on my new Wii Fit and then it is time to clean the bathroom...yuck!!! A lot of times I will just sit down for a "few minutes" to see what is on and spend the rest of the morning sitting on the couch watching whatever. So I am determined to curb this awful habit...

The past couple of days I am been under the weather and was advised by my doctor to rest. Resting is a bit hard for me because I am use to tidying up the house, cleaning the kitchen, cooking supper and taking care of my husband, but I cannot do those things. Not to mention I have not been to Wal-Mart since early Saturday morning, which I believe is a record for me. Kind of sad...So, I have been resting. Yesterday evening I picked up a book my wonderful husband bought me for our 2nd anniversary...Multiple Blessings by Jon and Kate Gosselin. They are the Jon and Kate plus 8 family on TLC on Monday nights (slight plug for the TV show).
I started it yesterday and finished it today. I am obviously not a professional writer nor did I excel in English but I will give my review of the book...

I really enjoy watching Jon and Kate on TLC. I also enjoyed reading about Jon and Kate. The book begins with how the two met and the struggles they had with conceiving. They initially conceived twins with help and then go on to conceive sextuplets. Most of the book is about the difficult pregnancy and what they as a family were going through. Being a mother of three year old twins while on bed rest at seven weeks into your second pregnancy isn't the norm, so I believe this is the heart of the book. Nothing about their family is normal in an everyday sense. During the book Kate recalls how her faith in God has helped her and family through all of the day to day struggles. I appreciate her honesty in believing in God but also admitting that she thought she could do things by herself. Ultimately, of course she was reminded otherwise.

One of the last chapters, Kate recalls all of the needs that she and her family had and one by one they were met either by complete strangers or from the volunteers that she had coming into her home...of course, God was meeting all of their needs but he was just using these people. It is so amazing to me that she actually carried six babies in her tummy for 30 weeks...unbelievable!!!
This book is definitely a fun read and should be taken as such.