I made an extremely exciting purchase on Craiglist this past week. It's a set of 3 bookcases that when set next to each other resemble a wall-to-wall bookcase! I am a book junkie and have stacks of books piled around, so our house is much more presentable since these bookshelves entered our existence. One nice little perk is that Nina gets my hand-me-down bookshelf in her own room. So now both of the kids have a bookcase in their room, which is just as I would like it. I want them to have books at their disposal all day every day; every
waking, breathing moment! Books that captivate, enlighten and enhance!! So I have age-appropriate books in each of their rooms. It can be a challenge for me to read when they are both awake and traipsing around the house, but I squeeze a bit in here and there (my most productive reading time is after they're in bed for the night). It is sweet music to my soul to see their little eyes delving into a book!
There's nothing I love more than to watch my children, giddy with quiet excitement, gently picking up then carefully placing each delicate ornament on the waiting tree. Ummm... the excited part was true but the rest a bit of a stretch. I was grabbing the breakable ornaments like mad, ensuring that none of them broke into a million pieces on our hardwood floor as their little feet pitter-pattered amidst their joyful antics. Lots of happy noise. Their enthusiasm was making me nervous, so I confiscated all of the glass ornaments. Then Tom and I turned up the Christmas tunes, sat down with some pulla and hot chocolate, and let them go to town. The final result was stunning... if not a bit bottom heavy. :)
