An Interesting Fact About Our Family

As I sit here at the computer listening to my girls reading stories to each other in the next room, a thought occurs to me: I don't read to my children. It's not that I never read to them, I just do it so rarely. That sort of falls under the daddy category at our house.

He is a much better story-teller. He is so animated when he tells stories. He gets into character. He uses different voices. He exclaims in all the right places to add emphasis and suspense. The girls absolutely love it!

I think they settle for my story reading when daddy is working because a poorly read story is better than none at all. Actually, sometimes they prefer to just read the books themselves.

The thing that's interesting to me about this situation, is that I'm the reader in the family. I have been known to read as many as 4 or 5 books simultaneaously. Kasey hates to read. His attitude is this: If the book is good enough, someone will turn it into a movie. If it's good enough for someone to take the time and money to make the movie, then I'll save myself the time of reading and just watch the movie.

Very different attitudes, to be sure.

I guess that's why it's kind of funny to me that Kasey is the one to read to the girls, not me. Oh well. As long as someone is reading to them, it really shouldn't matter who. Right?