It’s almost that time of year again.  Yep back to school.  My wife is a teacher and after having the entire summer off she is not ready to get back to the daily grind.  I always remind her that I continue to work every day and she should be really lucky to have a few months off in the summer time.

I think in about 2 weeks she has to start going back daily to get her classroom ready.  She will need to dust and clean.  Get the textbooks organized and ready.  And then she will have to put on the final touches when she gets the list with kids names on them.

I think she is going with her Frog theme again this year.  It was really cool last year.  I know her mom is coming down to help her which she loves and I’m sure I will pitch in at least one night to help out.

I say this because I love to buy books with the intent on reading them.  In fact last Thursday 3 more were delivered to my work.  LOL.  So this is what I bought.

Crazy Love by Francis Chan.  I heard this is a really good book.  I have heard in speak in person and watch his weekly vidcasts from his home church.  He is an awesome speaker, check him out if you have some time.

Men’s devotional NIV Bible.  I saw this some time ago in a store and loved the way it had a daily devotional before you read parts of the bible.  It should help with my reading plan.

Max Lucado: God Came Near.  This one looks pretty good and I’m a fan of his writings.

Those are the most recent 3 books I got.  But the list goes on and on.  Now I just need to set away some time and actually READ them, LOL.

I also am a huge fan of fantasy adventure and a few sci-fi books..

What are your favorites?

We are trying to finalize our gift shopping and pick up last minutes things so next week won’t be so hectic.  I know in the years past I would venture out for the heck of it on Christmas Eve and it would be a nightmare everywhere.  This year trying to get thing wrapped up this week.

We have picked up some cool gifts for the families.  We have also participated in filling a duffel bags full of goods that our church is going to distribute to the Fort Worth homeless shelter on Christmas day when they go feed them.  Our church filled 150 bags for 150 people in need.  We also got some personalized books to hand out to our friends and some small stocking stuffer’s so we don’t go overboard.

This year will be pretty light so we can all save a little extra money.