Books
We have lots and lots of books.
Today I am giving a tour of the Harris family library...
There are four IKEA shelves in our hallway with books stacked in a way that is probably not good for the bindings. But this is the only way they all fit, and it reduces the dust. I have them more or less in Dewey decimal order, which needs to be redone occasionally since I'm better at putting them in order than keeping them in order.
Most of the hallway books are Scott's and mine, but there are a few shelves with picture books.
At the end of the hallway, there's just enough room for a small hodgepodge of shelves and boxes that hold more children's books, with some random Bible reference material on the top. The shelves underneath these two wooden boxes hold mostly kids' non-fiction.
This is probably not safe, but it has held for several years now, and since we don't have climbing toddlers in the house, I think we're ok.
Anna has a couple shelves of books in her room where the picture book overflow gets tucked away.
These small shelves in our room hold my favorite fiction, biography, autobiography, and creative non-fiction.
I won't take a picture of the stack of books and papers on my bedside table or the French kids' magazines that get stuffed back on the shelves willy nilly, or the random literature that ends up in the bathroom, but they are here too and never ever stay organized for more than a week.
You may have noticed that there's not much in French on the shelves. I aspire to read more in French, and I have a library card, but I have a serious problem with getting books back on time, and French books feel slightly unfriendly to me. The pages are stiff. And I don't like the library, probably because I usually feel guilty there because of all the late fees that I have to pay.
I'm going to devote my end of the week post for the next couple months to books--what I'm reading, what we're reading with the kids, some of our favorite books, and maybe some favorite authors.