Moot Thoughts & Musings

We have Fuller's books out on our main bookshelves, not in his room. They are on the bottom two shelves, so he can reach them easily. We had them in his room originally, but there was no place to keep them neat and still be in his reach.

I think as long as he can access them, it is good. And he accesses them a lot!

Yea, I thought of that too, later. But still. You'd think SOME of the rooms would have books in them. Occasionally I see a handful of books (like 4 or 5) decoratively place. But SOMETIMES kids books are kept in the kids room, right?

Loch's books are ALL OVER. I *love* books and wish I could have my own personal library (no room for that). One wall in Loch's room is all shelves anchored to the studs and full of books, although I have to say that 1/2 are mine, 1/4 are pre-teen books (they are FUN to read!) and the rest are children's (paper) books. Loch's board books are downstairs along with a collection of children's books that my aunt the librarian sent to him (she gets FREE books all the time; how cool is that?!). Books are important! =D

BOOKS ARE A MUST~especially in the kids room. And they go everywhere and clutter up everything, I think that is what they are supposed to do....be read. I can't say I am much of a decorator but I think Loch's mom is right on. I have seen that, Really tall shelves that are skinny look nice in a kiddo's room *anchored!*. We have a big fat cheapy I bought out of desperation (bad idea) that is overflowing. Everytime I clean it up and re organize it i have 3 boys sitting on the floor or carrying them to bed and it makes me happy :) We have another bookshelf in the hallway with Baby J's favorites and Banjo's chapter book collections, then you saw my living room where I have school books & special books kept high that kids can enjoy with supervision. I LOVE the picture that you have posted...so cool. We LOVE our Ikea Leksvik shelf in the Living Room, probably not appropriate for a kids room, but it is the perfect size. Wow is this a comment or my own post. :) I guess I feel strongly about it. I hope Ellis is feelin' good.

E is back to 'normal', thanks. Drinking milk again. Alles gut.

We have a book shelf with board books on the bottom, a skinny shelf for puzzles in the middle, and a shelf for paper books on top. Then I keep up high the "junior fiction" and the Nice books and Books That I Care if a Page gets Ripped (like the autographed copy of Frog and Toad I inherited from my grandma) go up high on ledge shelf that's along one of the walls in his room. There's big comfy pillows by his bookshelf and we sit there and pull them off, look at them, swim in them. So very fun.

There was a time in our lives when every room in our house had books on a shelf!

There is a time in our lives when every room in our house has books on the floor.

:-D Couldn't resist the Toddler Version.

What happened, did your kids move out and take 'em all?

Is that Ellis' room? Or is it from a catalogue? It's cute either way, I love the airplanes.

About books, We have tons of books, but what i have found is that the books need to be protected. Bookshelves are not worth much when the books are on the floor 99% of the time. Josiah went through a book-destruction phase and so I got an "under the bed" rubbermaid that he couldn't get into. Now that he can, he doesn't tear books up anymore. But a TALL bookshelf that only mom and dad can reach would be practical for a toddler's room.

NOT Ellis's room. I like the airplanes, too. We do have quite a few of those Ikea Trofast bins. I've been fortunate in that Ellis has not been a book destroyer (yet?). So that makes a difference. Nevertheless, the books I really care about are up high for supervised reading only.

We most definitely do not keep the books in the boys room. I really liked the idea, but in the ATL there was no room. In Boise we have all three boys in one room. Isaac has this habit of taking every last book off the shelves and actually wallowing in them as he reads. This is a great problem to have so far as I'm concerned, but Gideon can't handle the bedroom messy and let's face it, those books don't get cleaned up immediately. Thus we have kid's books specifically concentrated on an upstairs hall shelf and a downstairs playroom shelf (aren't we incredibly blessed to actually have a playroom?). Of course we always have piles of books everywhere (on, under beds; kitchen table; random cabinets). I had a copy of Rudyard Kipling's Kim, Just So Stories & The Jungle Book that I actually slept with for years.

Addie's got a bookshelf in her room and after a bit of motherly prodding has been very good about putting her books back on the shelves...she loves to pick out a few books to read before bed. We also have a shelf in our office that is 2nd from the bottom with her books and her little IKEA table and chairs are in front of that so she can color or read to her little hearts desire. The living room also holds more books on a low shelf for her to thumb through or have Mama read to her. She's quite the book worm and has even started reciting parts of her books.

I agree, books are a very important tool in childhood. Per the destructive stages...I'm a board book kind of Mama but we've started progressing into the paper thin pages in the evening.

Love the pic of the room...very cute! Thought it was your handywork...The shelves with pull out tubs from IKEA are GREAT in a kids room with all the little toys and such.