Eye Opener

I'm still reading The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, but it is a slower read for me. I've been trying to get to bed earlier so that I can read but then I end up just falling asleep. We are doing some travelling this weekend so I will get a lot of reading done on the road.

Anyway even though I'm still reading that we took a trip to Barnes and Noble after dinner on Friday night. (Dinner and Barnes and Noble, we are wild on the weekends) I decided that I wanted to read Tori Spelling's book sTORI Telling. I'm a big fan of 90210 (old and new) and wanted to see what her side of the story actually is. If you keep up with celebrity gossip you know that she has always gotten attention for all of the wrong reasons.

I finished the book on Sunday as it was a very easy read and not too thought provoking. ha It was interesting to see how she saw her life and was sad to read that even with all that money and all the presents she was given all she wanted was a little love from her parents. Her favorite memory from childhood was picking up dog poop with her father. He specifically asked the grounds keepers not to pick it up so that Tori would have a chore to do. Can you imagine all the extravagant things and that being your favorite memory?

James and I talked about her a little bit as I was reading the book and I was saying how sad it made me for her. He said isn't it weird how those of us that don't have money think of how great it would be to have some and the ones that have more money than they can possibly spend only want some attention from those that are supposed to love them and to be "normal" like everyone else.

My parents were not poor when I was little but we were also very far from rich and I'm so thankful that I look back on my childhood and remember days spent in the garage with my dad while he worked on cars and nights when we played games as a family. As lame as the book probably sounds to most it really made me think about how I want to raise our children. It doesn't matter how much money you have or what toys you can buy them, it matters how you spend your time with them. Those are the things that they will remember.