Via RSS feed.November 20th, 2009
Don’t Let That Girl Out Alone!
Yesterday I had the opportunity to head into town all by myself. Now, that might sound strange to some, but this is my second trip with nobody with me this year – everyone stayed at home with my husband. Alone time is a rare commodity for many mothers, and it’s the same for me.
So, what did I do with my precious alone time? I hit the local library used book sale! I’d noticed it the last two times we were in town and driving by the library, but with some free time I thought I’d drop by. I brought home two cardboard boxes full of books! Seems they were clearing out their children’s reference section of some ‘less-desirable’ titles, so I was in there like a dirty-shirt!
My husband was thankfully gracious when I arrived home (he didn’t complain) and instead rummaged around in the books to find his favourites 
. Unlike most homeschooling families we don’t use the library often (fines, lost books, you name it!) so I’m building one of our own! Now if only I had a few more bookcases 
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I do enjoy a good used book sale. Glad you were able to come home with some good finds.
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I can relate to the library thing! The problem is we have so many books, they get mixed in and it’s terribly hard to round them up in time to return them without fines. We have a wonderful library, but I’m always needing room for more. And we do have lots of full book cases. My parents are readers, my husband loves to read and we’re rearing our kids to appreciate books. I guess there’s no hope. Do you have stacks of books on surfaces? I try to limit these, but they’re always popping up.
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Hah, you know it Celee! We do have a few piles, well, the new books are still on the couch!! That’s exactly our problem, we lose library books amongst our ‘regulars’ here, the children pack them off, and that’s the last we see of them for a long time!