Friday Favorite: Book Edition

First things first:

1. I'm not a reader.
2. I wish I was.
3. I know it makes you smarter. {who couldn't use some more intelligence...besides Nate ;) }
4. I know it's good for you.
5. I know you'll say I just have to find the right type of book. I've tried.
6. Want to know a secret of mine? I only got through 1/2 of the first Harry Potter book and couldn't finish it (gasp!). Never read any of the other ones (sshhh!) Go ahead and judge me if you must! :)

I generally just have a hard time getting "lost" in a book.

Then THIS book came up with many blogger recommendations...

Melanie is the author of Big Mama blog too, and since I generally laugh at her ramblings of motherhood, why not try her book too, right? haha :)

So I put it on my Christmas list.  My mom got it for me, and I was very happy but then thought to myself...but now I have to read it. haha! It sat on my nightstand for weeks months...and then one random night I decided to officially try to read it. (With the way I pushed it off, you'd think it was some sort of torture or something.)

I couldn't put it down. I read it every night.

every.single.night.

I'm also pretty sure that I've never read through a book so quickly.

A book of real life stories that perfectly explain marriage.  I love how real and honest she is.  It makes the book THAT much better...and made me laugh 10x harder.  I think every night that I read it, I laughed till I cried. I had to read multiple stories from the book to Nate because I couldn't believe how much I loved it.

It was funny yet wise, silly but honest, 

and spoke lots of truth about marriage. If every book would be like this

...I would read a heck of a lot more. 

Here is one of my favorite excerpts from the book:

#preach 

On this Friday...I pray that you are the soft place to land for your husband & that you'll take my advice to read this book.  Get on it ;) Happy Friday!

xox,

Naomi