Family Time, part 2

Welcome back to our mini series on what we enjoy doing as a family. Today’s topic is reading night. Since we both love to read, we try to set aside one night or block of time on the weekend, to spend time reading together. This doesn’t mean we read aloud or read the same book, but that we take away distractions and turn off the TV to spend some time dedicated reading. Andrew and I do have a significant overlap in books we enjoy reading, so we do end up reading books after the other one has read something often. Reading night is one of my favorite nights together in the week, because we can discuss a book if the other one of us has already read it and we get to spend time together doing something calm but enjoyable.

I picture reading night continuing into our future, but obviously with some changes for a bit after we bring home our future child. We are excited to share our love of reading with him or her! Whether it is reading to them, listening to them read as they start learning how to, or having time set aside to read independently but together—there are lots of ways we can include our future child into this great family activity.

~Natalie