What did you do with your extra day?

Hi, Everybody!  How are you doing as we start our journey through March?

Since this is Leap Year, Monday was February 29th – our extra day this year. How did you fill it?

That was my first whole day home during my week off from Dad’s, and … know what I did with my extra day? I read my Bible, vacuumed my house and did a little tidying up, watered my two dozen or so plants, and so on … and prepared a story that had to be ready for 12×12 check-in by midnight. I’m finding it to be quite the balancing act, and my balance isn’t what it used to be or should be, but I haven’t been knocked off track yet.

Early Tuesday evening we made a quick trip to the library where I picked up fourteen of the over 100 books I have to borrow for ReFoReMo. I won’t be able to get them all as not all are in our library’s system, but I will gather many of them over the month. Our librarian put them on hold for me so that when the books become available they’ll be brought in for me to borrow. I must say, I was excited to get my hands on those fourteen beautiful books! 

Top to bottom they are:

• My Teacher is a Monster! (No I am Not) – by Peter Brown
• The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend – by Dan Santat
• Raindrops Roll – by April Pulley Sayre
• Tree of Wonder: The Many Marvelous Lives of a Rainforest Tree – by Kate Messner and Christopher Silas Neal
• Water is Water – by Miranda Paul and Jason Chin
• Weeds Find a Way – by Cindy Jenson-Elliott and Carolyn Fisher
• Flora and the Flamingo – by Molly Idle
• Who Done It? – by Olivier Tallac
• Cheetah Can’t Lose – by Bob Shea
• Duck! Rabbit! – by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
• What To Do If an Elephant Stands on Your Foot – by Michelle Robinson
• The Promise – by Nicola Davies
• Infinity and Me – by Kate Hosford
• Here Comes the Tooth Fairy Cat – by Deborah Underwood and Claudia Rueda

Of all the many, many books I’ve read over the years to my little girls, my nephew, my grandson, and occasionally other children – the only ones I’ve read that are on ReFoReMo’s list of (over 100) books assigned us for the challenge  are The Monstore by Tara Lazar and I Am Otter by Sam Garton. Gosh! It seems I’m waayy behind when it comes to reading picture books, at least the newer ones. And I love picture books!                                                                                   

Of that long list the only one I own is: Gee … I’m on my way!  I have to get reading.  Gotta love that. 🙂

Have you read any of the above-mentioned books?

How did you use your extra day this year?

Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings!  🙂