Help!!! I've Fallen...And I Can't Get Up!

Hello. I am Casey. And I am a "bookaholic."

I am not kidding. I don't just mean that I love to read. I mean I am addicted to reading. It's the kind of addiction where I can go for days without reading a book, but once I start one, I can't stop.

This kind of addiction has required a four-year-old to learn how to make his/her own PB&J; children to eat food made from recipes where one eye was on what I was doing, and one eye was on the book of the moment; and the kind of addiction where I am sure I promised one or more of my children a pony, or a convertible when they turned sixteen--"Sure, okay, Honey. As soon as Mommy finishes this chapter..."

I have done this since the summer after my kindergarten year--when I first realized that I could read the Tip books to myself. I am not sure why I do this--escape, maybe?

I am watching my children live in a home with a book addict. My daughters have caught the addiction. My sons want nothing to do with books.

I know that for many addictions, the solution is so simple, yet extremely difficult to pull off. Stop. Cold Turkey. No more--whatever--EVER.

I don't think curing a reading addiction is so simple. Especially if you are a home schooling mother of four and a teacher by trade. And addicts seem to find other people who enjoy their same vices. All of my friends are avid readers. I would venture to say that most of them don't have the problem I have, though.

So, what's a girl to do?

I am writing this because I have been on a major reading jag as of late.

It started when I received an amazonkindle. If you are a reading addict, BAD, BAD, BAD!! Way more titles than you need available at the touch of a button, virtually anywhere. BAD, BAD, BAD for the budget, as well.

So, instead of catching up on laundry, and going through my mountains of "stuff" (hubby said only 1/3 of it could come back upstairs), I am drowning my "sorrows" in literature.

Here's a list of the books I have read in the past week. Yep, I said week.

1. Embrace Me by Lisa Samson (may be on my new "top ten")

2. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik

3. Even Now by Karen Kingsbury (grabbed this one to flip through while I sat at the "greeter" desk in the nursery at church and had to see how it ended. Typical Karen Kingsbury. I can't handle the saccharine-sweet endings, anymore. I think I'm done reading her stuff.)

4. Chasing Fireflies: A Novel of Discovery by Charles Martin (very good--new author recommended to me by--you guessed it--amazonkindle)

I am almost half-way done with When Crickets Cry, another Charles Martin novel, and I have My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok waiting in the wings for me. He wrote The Chosen, which if you haven't read yet, you need to.

I really need some help, here!

I am getting ready to go visit a friend in California for a long weekend. And one of the things I am looking forward to, besides seeing her and her family for three days, is all of that flying time. AKA uninterrupted, guilt-free, reading time.