{"id":1545,"date":"2015-03-20T14:40:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T19:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2015-03-20T14:40:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T19:40:34","slug":"i-promise-to-always-turn-back-toward-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=1545","title":{"rendered":"I promise to always turn back toward you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our reading curriculum this year Lydia and I have been reading from chapter books. Actually, I&#8217;m reading them aloud and Lydia is listening. Chapter books have been a bit of a struggle with Lydia &#8212; she wants to read a book cover to cover in one sitting, so the concept of taking in a story a bit at a time has been foreign to her. We started off with <em>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Tale of Desperaux, Matilda,<\/em> and <em>Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH<\/em>. She listened well to all of these books, some of them my own childhood favorites, but she still was not enthused about reading.<\/p>\n<p>Last week as we were finishing up the <em>Rats of NIMH<\/em>, I picked up a book on a whim from the bookstore: <em>Flora &#038; Ulysses<\/em>. After we were done with <em>NIMH<\/em>, we started up with our new book, which is about a girl who meets up with a very unique squirrel.<\/p>\n<p>And just like that, Lydia fell in love.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly we found ourselves reading at a marathon pace whenever we could find the time &#8212; morning, evening, we were reading! The story completely captured her.<\/p>\n<p>All too soon the story reached its end. We finished up the last few chapters this morning. Lydia spent the rest of the morning in a languid post-book depression. We colored some pictures from the book and Lydia worked on copying out a poem the squirrel, Ulysses, wrote for Flora. <\/p>\n<p>She changed one thing, though. The original title of the poem is &#8220;Words for Flora.&#8221; She switched out &#8220;Flora&#8221; with &#8220;Mom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It now adorns my fridge.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_7770-e1426880256993-622x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7770\" width=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_7770-e1426880256993-622x1024.jpg 622w, https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_7770-e1426880256993-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_7770-e1426880256993.jpg 983w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our reading curriculum this year Lydia and I have been reading from chapter books. Actually, I&#8217;m reading them aloud and Lydia is listening. Chapter books have been a bit of a struggle with Lydia &#8212; she wants to read a book cover to cover in one sitting, so the concept of taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10,11,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}