Crucial Conversations

As I dropped Connor off today at school is teacher said something about only 10 days left in the school year....... what? OMG! My baby is almost done with his "first" year of school. They're actually having a little graduation ceremony, which I still think is silly, but I know it'll be super cute and I will probably cry, lol.

So for my Business Communications class we had to read two different books. Crucial Conversations by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan and Switzler is the book we had to read the second half of the semester. I know I learn a lot from textbooks but sometimes it doesn't seem clear where I will use this information. This book however is completely opposite. Not only is this going to be the first book that I keep from school it is a book that I recommend to anyone. It teaches you the tools to have conversations more effectively and to help other people share their knowledge as well. If you are a businessman, a teacher, mom, anyone really could benefit from this book. I believe I got it off of amazon for really cheap so I recommend checking it out.

Sweet Dream Kisses

So I finished up Pat's Christmas present last night, yay! That took FOREVER! It ended up having 282 pictures in it! Holy cow! I did realize however I ordered the wrong size, crap! Some of those pages have a lot of pictures on them, so I hope she'll be able to see them! I also finished getting the kids god parents presents together this morning! Woho! Now I just need to get 1 more thing for Matt and 1 more thing for Secret Santa and then I think we're done! I'll have to double check everything and make sure we didn't miss anyone, but the end is in sight!

So we finished the book Sweet Dream Kisses - Treasury of Bedtime Stories last month. I don't know how I forgot to post about it but somehow it got missed. I realized it when I went onto my Shelfari account and it still said we were reading it, oops! Anyways, the book is super cute & a really nice one to have. It has a ton of short stories in it, some classics and some I've never heard of before. We would read 2-3 almost every night (Scott even read once and awhile!) and took us a few weeks to complete it. If you're looking for a nice book to purchase for a little kid I recommend this one! I don't remember where we got it but I'm sure you could find it on Amazon very easily.