on the same page

We have had a really sweet thing happening in our house. With the movie The Lion the Witch and the wardrobe coming out my husband Jason decided to read nightly the C.S. Lewis classic to the girls. The last couple of nights he has lit a fire called us all over to him and we read. The book has some difficult words for the younger girls but the book does, do a great job explaining itself as it goes on. This morning it is all they can talk about. There is a beaver in the book and my youngest asked if she could color one. I don't know about the rest of you but when we hit the mark of family togetherness, it just feels good. There is no guilt about the girls watching too much TV. Savannah is not on the computer, and Jason and I aren't off somewhere else in the house. We are all sitting together, all on the same page (pun definitely intended) and enthralled in a wonderful fantasy. We are doing at that moment exactly what we need to be doing: simply being a family! As a young woman this was the ideal life I dreamt of.