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We’re a big book loving family around here.  As early as I can remember as a kid, evenings included sitting on my dad’s lap reading the Bible together (it was his early reader primer of choice).  I could read by the time I was 2 or 3, and from that point on I’m always reading SOMETHING.  I remember reading the cereal box at breakfast just because there was nothing else in the house I hadn’t read yet.  Well, now I find myself on the parental end of that little problem-KEEPING enough material in the house without spending a fortune.

With 3 young readers in the house (and 2 who love books but can’t read them yet!), we frequently hit yard sales and buy boxes of books at a time.  This solves the “fresh material” issue for the summers at least, but it does bring about the issue of space.   We recycle them out in our yard sales, but the time in between we don’t know where to store them.  So this year, we’ve been focusing more on using our local library.

Every week, we head over and I release the older kids to the juvenile section while I head off to whatever section strikes my fancy for the day.  Our library is relatively small in the grand scheme, but it’s part of a statewide network of lending (I’m sure most of you are familiar with the inter-library loan system).  I’m sure we’ll be using that quite a bit!

Today I think we each checked out our body weight in books, the librarian didn’t believe me when I said that was only a weeks worth!  As for me, I picked up the Martha Stewart Encyclopedia of Crafts to poke through, I’m excited to see what all is inside.  I already have her Homemaking book, and I love it-the detail on how to keep a home is really fantastic.

Are you a reader?  Got any fabulous books to recommend to me?  I’m always looking for new things to read!!!