Today began with another early run. Sadie looked so darn cute this morning and she gave me those “take me with you” eyes, so I decided to take my workout outside and run again rather than head to the gym for a workout.
I think she appreciated it! Sadie is already taking her recovery nap, but not because she’s tired… because I’ve busted out my computer and she knows that means I’m going to be boring for a little while.
Breakfast
Breakfast this morning began with a cup of Greek yogurt that I ate about 20 minutes before my run.
After my run and a super-fast shower, I topped a toasted whole wheat English muffin with almond butter and unsweetened coconut.
I ate my breakfast while responding to emails and trying to spot my friend Merri on the Today Show! Merri lives in New York City (I visited her last December when she bought her wedding dress) and she and her sister Liz snagged a front row spot as Train performed on the show this morning.
I saw her for a second and it was way too cool!
During the Today Show, there was a commercial for the new Broadway musical Matilda based on the book by Roald Dahl. I absolutely loved that book when I was a kid! I actually read a bunch of Roald Dahl books and thought James and the Giant Peach was fantastic.
Other books I loved growing up:
- The Boxcar Children series
- The Bobbsey Twins series
- Shel Silverstein’s poetry books (I loved A Light in the Attic and Falling Up)
- Sweet Valley Twins series (and eventually Sweet Valley High)
- Baby-Sitter’s Little Sister series (This was the series that centered around Karen Brewer! It was a a spin-off of The Baby-Sitter’s Club for younger people who weren’t old enough for The Baby-Sitter’s Club yet. I actually liked the Little Sister series more than The Baby-Sitter’s Club, which I grew out of fairly quickly.)
Question of the Morning
- What were some of your favorite books to read when you were growing up?
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I loved the Little Sister books better than the Baby Sitter’s Club better too!!! I also liked the Sweet Valley books and anything by Shel Silverstein!
I have so many favorite childhood books! I love sweet valley, goosebumps (even though I got terrified), the hobbit, harry potter, and I LOVED Shel Silverstein! I guess those were more pre-teens, well some were. When I was a kid, I loved Gillian Jiggs and her magical pigs…or something along those lines;)
Little House on The Prairie books, could not get enough of them
I loved Little House on the Prairie and The Chronicles of Narnia…my mom and I would read them together before bed! 😀
So many good childhood books! I used to read the sweet valley high books..and I will always love the mixed up files! I run a book club with mixed up files now and I read it over and over again each time!
Shel Silverstein has the BEST childhood books! Where The Sidewalk Ends is always a favorite. The Boxcar Series and Babysitter’s Club were always good, too!
I love spontaneous workouts! I wish I could run with my dog. He always is so energetic at the beginning of the run, but about 5 minutes into it, he decides he is done. 😛
I absolutely loved the Boxcar Children and Nancy Drew. I loved me some mysteries!
I loved the Sweet Valley High books in High school. I read everything I could get my hands on. I heard the Sweet Valley author was coming out with a new series about the twins, be interesting to know if that is true.
She came out with book called Sweet Valley Confidential: 10 Years Later: http://www.amazon.ca/Sweet-Valley-Confidential-Years-Later/dp/0312667574. I read it and was really unimpressed. She still wrote for people who were in their teens instead of people who are older now who loved the books growing up. And, I thought the story line was odd, too.
But you should check it out!
no way! i’ll look into it!
I am a lot older and my favorite books when I was young were Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, and the Bobbsey Twins.
Pam, I must be about your age and i adored Trixie! I still have all my books from the series and just got 2 in the mail that I had misplaced. Still love reading about Trixie and the BobWhites.
The other day I made a “where the sidewalk ends” reference and a few of my friends had no idea who Shel Silverstein was! I couldn’t believe it! I also loved Sweet Valley High, Nancy Drew, Cam Jansen, and a whole bunch of others.
CAM JANSEN!!!!! *click*
Oh gosh, I LOVE Babysitters’ Club + the Little Sister series, as well as the Boxcar Children and Nancy Drew. I loved to read as a kid. 🙂
Yes!! Anywhere else remember the Nancy Drew mystery books??
Anyone**
I just wanted to say that I love reading pbfingers! Some of my favorite books included Nancy Drew and Harry Potter of course!
btw: The nut butter on an English Muffin sounds like such a good bfast idea! I eat oatmeal everyday, but sometimes I really need a change!
so glad to have you reading, priya!
I actually requested Falling Up for Christmas when I was SIXTEEN! haha. I love that book 😉
You opened a can of worms with this question cause I could talk ALL day about this 🙂
Nancy Drew, Fear Street (!!!), Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley Twins, Bobbsey Twins, Hardy Boys, The Secret Garden, The Root Cellar, L.M. Montgomery books, etc etc…
(but you know I have never read “The Boxcar Children” and I’m about 4-5 years older than you,….funny! Never even heard of it!).
Loved The Book Fair day at school.
the book fair was like Christmas!!! i loved it!
Also, no banana or fruit with the muffin! I’m slightly going overboard with fruit (10+ servings a day AND night and its …a problem 🙁
I loved all of the Amelia Bedelia books… love a scattered brain gal 🙂
Also loved all things Judy Blume!
I loved Sweet Valley High series so much that my mom had to stop me from presenting it in the school book club. Another favorite, British five friends series. I was a tomboy and wanted to be like George
I remember my parents used to read “The Giving Tree” and “Clifford” all the time. Those were my favorite as a child! As I got into my teenage years I read “Sweet Valley High” and “The Babysitter’s Club”
Yes! Boxcar and Baby Sitters Little Series was my jam! And still whenever I hear the name Karen that who. I think of haha…there aren’t that many!
I also loved the Nancy Drew books and the Left Behind kids’ series!
Nancy Drew! LOVED the series!
I loved the baby sitter’s club- I remember how my friends and I wanted to make a club just like it for dog sitting. Not sure how lucrative that would be, though….
Oh, I really liked Catherine Called Birdy and the Fudge books.
Beverly Cleary and the Berenstain Bears were some of my favorites!
I also loved the Golden Books series. I was visiting the Smithsonian American History Museum last weekend and was absolutely delighted to see a special exhibit chronicling the series’ impact on childhood literacy. http://americanhistory.si.edu/documentsgallery/exhibitions/goldenbooks/index.html
You could really tell everyone (well, the adults) throughout the exhibit were so excited to relive their childhood through their favorite books! It’s amazing what special connections we formed with these titles/covers. 🙂
I also loved the Babysitter’s Club and Sweet Valley high series!!
I actually just saw Matilda on Broadway this week! My Mom surprised me with a trip to NYC. All the kids in the musical were so amazingly talented. The Trunchbull was played by a guy, and he was HILARIOUS! I highly recommend it!
i’d love to see it!!
Oh mannn I loooooove Matilda! In fact, it was the first book that I was able to read and understand when I started to actually speak English after moving to the US. 🙂
Babysitters Club were my favorite books.
These were a few of my favorites:
Anne of Green Gables
Goosebumps
Oliver Twist
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
The Boy who Loved Clowns
I loooooooved the Baby Sitter’s Club! I had at least 20 books during my prime 😉 I also loved Magic Treehouse, The Berenstain Bears (when I was younger), and Nancy Drew!
Nancy Drew, Roald Dahl, Sweet Valley and The Babysitter’s Club…god the memories!!
I think you may have raided my childhood book case because those were some of my faves too :-). Could not get enough of the Baby Sitters Club and SVH!
Oh your list of books brings back memories! Love it! I used to love Goodnight Moon and the Berenstein Bears.
goodnight moon makes my heart happy. 😀
I used to love the Boxcar children! They were some of my first chapter books that I read. I also loved the Little House on the Prairie series. As I grew older I loved Nancy Drew books and even had some of the computer games (I’m a nerd) haha. I still love reading today and wish I had more time to read.
I used to love Shel Silverstein books! Where the Sidewalk Ends was my favorite, especially the peanut butter and jelly poem 🙂
I read all of those plus Harry Potter, I was addicted! But really I read whatever I could get my hands on 🙂
I seriously thought I was the only person who read the Boxcar Children series growing up! I also loved the BSC series and Little House on the Prarie.
Can’t believe no one has mentioned American Girl books!! Back then we only had 5 or 6 characters, now there are so many more!
totally forgot about american girl books! i loved them, too! ooooh Samantha parkington…
Little House on the Prairie all the way!
I always loved the Dear America and Royal Diaries series. They mixed fiction with history in a way that was really appealing to a 5th grade girl!
Goosebumps!
Oh my goodness I forgot about Goosebumps!
I loved Nancy Drew,Little House, Babysitters Club, Sweet valley High.
When I saw the title of this blog I immediately thought of anything by Roald Dahl. Then I saw you talked about him, too!
I loved all of those series as well – you have good taste :-).
In April, I saw Matilda on Broadway with the ladies in my family. I highly recommend it. My 10 year old cousin is still talking about it – but there are plenty of laughs for the adults!
I love your book selection! My favorite from waaay back when were always the Sideways Stories of Wayside School. I didn’t know it at the time, but it was my first experience with magical realism in literature!
I just discovered your blog and it is so fantastic!
I loved anything roald dahl!!! Also remember Beverly Cleary??
Goosebumps were awesome, but the best ever is still “The Giving Tree.” I still have a copy of that book sitting on my bookshelf 🙂
Just the thought of the giving tree made me get tears in my eyes! Such a sad book to me but a food message
I LOVED babysitters clubs series!!!
I just discovered your blog and it is so fantastic!
I loved anything roald dahl!!! Also remember Beverly Cleary??
Goosebumps were awesome, but the best ever is still “The Giving Tree.” I still have a copy of that book sitting on my bookshelf
I read SO much as a kid! When I was really, really little it was Goodnight Moon and Baby Beluga. When I could actually read for myself, Little Critter and The Bernstein Bears. Then, when I got into novels, it was The Babysitters Club, Goosebumps, and Sweet Valley High. Oh and I LOVED Ramona! I don’t think I ever got into the books, but I remember begging my mum to take me to the library to get the videos (starring Sarah Polley, well before her Dawn of the Dead days!)
I was a pretty smart kid and I loved reading. (I read The Hobbit in grade 4.) I’d read just about anything I could get my hands on.
This was a perfect post for me- It’s my sons first birthday and I have been brainstorming classic children’s books to get him! Of course toys are on the table, but the books he will keep forever, and hopefully pass down to his children. 🙂