how to find time to read

When I had my fourth baby, The Professor, I was kind of at the high end of being busy with the little people significantly outnumbering the big people. When Sparky wasn't home, it was four to one, in fact. Having always been a reader, I was really missing having the time to read. I thought, I need a plan.

So I reasoned that if I planned to do just a little, just a teeny weeny bit of reading daily, that I still might get the opportunity to read maybe one or two good books a year.  Surely I could squeeze one or two pages, five or ten minutes of reading in...?  So I planned that at least once a day, while I nursed The Professor, I would crack open a book, and read at least a paragraph. 

Sounds almost pointless really, doesn't it?  But that year, I read about ten great books.  Novels and biographies and spiritual reading.  It was amazing.  The odd day I only did get that one paragraph in, but some days, I got to read a whole chapter.  I just had to find a new way to read.  I had to be satisfied with very short bursts of reading, and reading with a lot of interruptions. 

I had to alter my expectations. 

That is the year I started Mama Baskets.  Along with all the other gear, I could keep my book in there.   It was fabulous.  Of course, it was important to stick to light reading with a nursing baby.  Meaning it doesn't weigh very much.  It is hard to hold War and Peace as you nurse your baby.

 Plus a bit dangerous.