Moving Books

 I have spent two days moving books. I have been wondering about my sanity. Why on earth am I a book hoarder? Could I get rid of them? No, when we moved here I took 20 some odd boxes to the used book store. I hauled boxes to North Carolina, and Tucson. I left bookcases at the other house. She wanted to have a library like I had. I brought five book cases with me. They are stuffed with books. (Six boxes in one of the closets, I will have to move.)

One side of the room, this is the dining room now doubling as a library. 

The tall book case is Ron's for his office. A normal kind of bookcase. Mine are stacked books behind books.

My Anne of Green Gables set of books. I might rescue these if the house burned down. When my Mom died, and my Dad had remarried, I was really I think in a bad place. (I didn't know it of course.) The school librarian had worked for my Dad when I was five or six so she had known my birth Mom. We got to go to the school library every other Friday. It was the most favorite thing I did. After I had read all of the Nancy Drew's and I was at ends. She gave me Anne. I was enchanted. ( When Matthew died, is still one of the most traumatic things in my mind.) I didn't know there were others and the school library didn't have them. I credit that lady who knew more about my life than I suppose I did, she wouldn't let me get yukky books but would find books for me and put them on the end of her desk every other week. Now, I realize how much impact she had on my life and my character. She molded my mind. I always wondered if that was why I wanted six kids because Anne did.
 

These are jumbled but when I move them back, yes, after the paint and carpet, I will move them back. This is my hardback Little House books and my Mienert De Jong books. All of these I read out loud to the kids. I love that they read out loud to their kids now. When I bought those Anne books, I would have to talk and talk to get someone to take me to the book store. I worked in the summer for five dollars a week. It would take me awhile to save up and when I got enough money, then I would go buy another one. It took me almost a year. I remember when I went to go buy my first copy of Anne of Green Gables and I stood staring at the shelf and there was a whole series, I was just in shock. I think about it as I write this post, if it was me I would have bought them for my kids because it was something they loved. Not in my world, then I had to earn it. I wonder if that is why they mean so much to me now. 

I have been moving books, and cleaning and trying to find places to put things. They will re-carpet the closets. so I have to clean those out too. Its a good thing to do for now. All of this to say, I haven't hooked one single loop. 

Here is where I am as of today. I have my last strip of wool sitting here to be cut so I can finish, but I have to go buy food. I hate when life gets in the way don't you? 

 Just that tiny bit. I also had to order wool from Dorr. I had to wait for it to get here. Then I will hook a frame around the outside. I can't wait to get it steamed and hung. Then I have to go through that, what will be my next project? 

We only got one room finished last weekend. We hope to get two this weekend. Then the last will be the our room. Its going to feel so nice once its all done. 

Thanks for reading. I had all of these thoughts as I was moving books so its nice to get them out of my head. 

I hope you have a lovely day,

~Kim~ 

 

"Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like and old friend through quiet ways." Anne of Avonlea,--- L.M. Montgomery, 1909