Through the years I have read a wealth of books aloud to my children. Excellent literature read immediately after lunch and bedside before the lights were turned off when it was time to sleep. Then there were the evenings when we would read after dinner in the living room including my husband for family read alongs. I especially remembered the Little Britches books we read through with such anticipation every evening.
Missionary stories were also a favorite during family read alongs and famous Christian biographies had a place to be read on Sundays at the table after eating Sunday dinner.
My husband and are are alone now and last week we began revisiting this pleasant leisure immediately after dinner clean-up.
Darkness falls earlier now, but being outside on the porch is pleasing so with the overhead twinkly lights and a lamp on a wicker table by my side we read several chapters a night. This book was written in 1947 by Mrs. Gordon H. Smith, an autobiography of her family's return to Indo-China after WWII. We are learning about this country and its history too, Indo-China was the name for Vietnam then. I found it interesting how the authoress used her husband's name. I like it.
