Book o' Last Month: The First Four Years

This post is bittersweet.  The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder is a bittersweet story of Laura and Almanzo Wilder's first four years of marriage.  It was tough going trying to make a living farming in the Dakota Territory, but Laura was resilient, pragmatic, and ultimately optimistic.

Andrew and I have spent many sweet mornings curled up before school reading through this series.  We have both been absorbed in the details of Laura's pioneer life.  But this is the last book in the series and when we finished the final page I thought, Now what?  That's the bitter.

Andrew is an excellent reader (thoroughly enjoying Gary Paulsen's Hatchet series) and interested in many other things: guitar, drawing airplanes and ships, Snap Circuits.  But, lucky for me, he is also still interested in hanging out with his mom.  Now I just need to find a new book to read to him.