My Library

Jason built me these incredible shelves this summer. I emptied ten boxes that previously had no home onto these shelves. It's been so great to have my books organized and available. Previously, they were in boxes in the storage room where no one could get to them.

Now, it is one of my greatest pleasures to see my kids reading constantly. They call this closet "The Library" and they go there every single day to get books out, and then I find them by themselves, in pairs, or all together reading and reading. It makes me so happy. It's so sweet to see older siblings reading to younger ones. Halle reads to Gray, Gray reads to Nash, and Nash even "reads" to Jude.

Halle, especially, has become such a reader. She literally reads for at least an hour every day. I got the whole Diary of a Wimpy Kid series a few weeks ago in a book order, and she read all five books in one week. Those books are each over 200 pages long. She spends a lot of time in the chair above. Tonight, she was sitting there reading and Gray and Jason were trying to tell her something. She didn't respond, so Jason asked her if she'd heard them. She said, "I don't hear anything when I read." She even tries to do other things one-handed while reading like setting the table. Sometimes I have to pull the book out of her hand to get her attention, but I love that she loves reading as much as I do. She reminds me so much of me when I was a kid. I hope she doesn't mind being like her mom someday.