The Library

So my niece likes to send me email. It's pretty funny. She's a cute kid and I can't believe how fast she's growing up. I invited her to a library book sale with me and we went last night. The SL city library is huge compared to what she is used to. The Spring sale isn't that big but we did manage to find a couple books each. Then we went and wandered around the library and rode in the glass elevators. Liv had never been in one before. She loves libraries and reading. She has been reading the Warrior Cats series by Erin Hunter. I got her a couple of them for Christmas and tried to read one to see what it was like, but only got a page or two. Not my kind of thing. I never did really enjoy talking animals. She likes fantasy and there are a couple of series' I would really like to have her try. I guess I just need to take them to her and let her see. If she doesn't like them it's ok. I'll be disappointed a little bit because I love them so, but I can see that the books I loved at that age may not exactly appeal to her. Still, it's worth a try.  I spent so many hours at the library when I was growing up. There are books I still don't own that I fondly remember checking out many, many times. Or hiding on the upper level sitting on the floor reading books from the non-fiction section (mostly about music). LOL - we did have some reading chairs but they weren't in spots I wanted to be. Anyway, good times and good memories.

Spring Odds & Ends

The managers at work decided to give us Good Friday as a paid holiday this year (took away our floating holiday which I wasn’t happy about) so I had a 3 day weekend for Easter. I pretty much wasted Friday by sleeping in, going for a nice walk, doing a little shopping. Then I had the kids sleep over. It’s the first time they have slept over since I got my new floor and I might have been a little anxious that they didn’t spill on it. They didn’t so it was fine. I had 5 kids stay with me and it was a little crazy but not too bad. I think they had fun. They are old enough now, and with that many of them, I let them all sleep downstairs and I slept upstairs in my own bed so I actually got a little sleep.

On Saturday I had my 5 year old niece for the day and we spent a few hours at the park. It was such a nice day and she had a blast at the park. I told my other sister we need to take a picnic and take all the kids back there when it warms up just a bit more.

Only a few more weeks and I can plant flowers. One of the hostas I planted last year survived the winter (possibly 2 of them survived) and so did the ground cover I planted. I can’t remember the name of it but it is spreading ever so slightly which is what I wanted it to do. I can’t wait to get some color in there.

I’ve been buying books like crazy and really need to stop. A lot of them were used, but still. I bought one more bookshelf in February to match my others thinking it would be a good space to fill in eventually. Yeah, it’s filling up a lot faster than I through it would. LOL something about an empty shelf I just want to fill. I am loving my library and am so glad I changed my house and added that room.