Back to Reality...

I can now live my life back in the real world-------Harry Potter 7 is finally finished. Some girls wanted to get together this morning to discuss the book, so last night brought flashbacks of 6th grade. I was supposed to read "The Lion, the witch, and the wardrobe" for a test and started reading it at 7:30 pm the night before. I was up all night and still wasn't able to finish. This time it wasn't as drastic. At 9 pm I only had about 250 pages left. I knew I would be done by midnight. I wasn't taking into account my full day yesterday and by 11 I had re-read the same sentence 10 times. I relented and went to sleep. When Shawn woke up at 5:30 this morning I turned on the lamp determined to finish before I took a shower. It ended up being read for 10 minutes, eyes rolling back in head, sleep for 20, start again. Finally at 7:45 this morning I pulled the covers off and made myself as uncomfortable as possible knowing this had to be done before 8:30 so I could clean my house and make a treat to share with these lovely girls. The funny thing about this is that this book was wonderful. If I hadn't been so tired there is no way I would have stopped reading until the last page was complete. All is well, the book was read, I made Erin's lemon blueberry biscuits (my new addiction), cleaned the house, showered, fed 4 kids breakfast, got them all dressed, got myself dressed, and even had time to put on mascara. Erin, Jodie, Tiffany, Danielle, and Kristy showed up with kids in tow, and we discussed the book for 1 1/2 hours. That is officially the longest book club discussion we've had to date. It's also probably the longest book we've read to date. It was a fun morning. I think J.K. Rowling did a great job of wrapping things up in this series. I don't want to give anything away to those of you still plugging through, but I do want to say that I'm happy with how things ended. They ended how they needed too.