I'm finally going through and adding black shirts to my CafePress shops. I need the money and I figure sales will go up a lot of I add the black shirts. It's a long and tedious process because I have to recreate the graphics in a transparent format. Some of them I have in old transparent PSP files, but Photoshop CS3 won't open them and I don't have an old copy of Paint Shop Pro anymore. Anyway, I've done a grand total of one design so far:

I [heart] Bubblewrap

It was always one of my very important goals of parenting to raise a child who loves to read. I was worried for a while because he was a little delayed verbally as well as in whatever it is that kids use to learn to read. I ended up buying him things like comic books of The Simpsons and other things he could read quickly and think were funny. That worked pretty well. He went through that stage where most of the age appropriate books are crap, and he read mostly stuff he got from the school library and wasn't super enthusiastic about it.

But now! Now, he's almost 13 and I can share the books that I like with him. About a year and a half ago I had him read Watership Down, which he enjoyed. Then more recently I started rereading Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. I suggested to him that he would enjoy them too, and he started reading the first one when I was on about the fourth book. I'm now on book 22, but he's passed me and is on book 24 (though he has to go back and read Jingo because I was reading it when he got there so he skipped it).

Since he got old enough to read non-children-specific books his love of reading has really taken off. He reads for at least an hour if not several every night, usually brings a book when traveling in the car, and brings a book whenever he knows he will have to sit around somewhere. It makes me so happy!

(Here is his most recent entry on his website, which is about books.)