Let the great book overhaul begin!

I'm seriously tackling book organizing and weeding. So far there's two huge bags of books to give back, give away, or get rid of! I swear that by the end of the day my books will all be on shelves and at least in the rough area where they'll end up living.

Moomin and Hamish made Pokemon cards for their stuffed animals. I enjoyed watching their pokemon fight. "Wildrock, use tail whack attack!" "Ratatat, use Avalanche!" (*sound effects*) They like the idea of having cards, stats, and attacks with cool names, but they haven't grasped the idea of making a system that actually works, with rules to follow.

Now they're making each other "Mathematics books". Moomin being a bit pompous about how he "knows about tens and ones". Why "mathematics"?

I should take a break from my book organizing and play Heroscape with them, with rules! But it's so nice to have a bit of time to myself.

I have looming grant deadlines and should write about 3 book proposals, but first I need to be able to use my office, which means cleaning up all the books and papers and buying a bike lock so I can move the bikes out of there. It would also help to get the heater working in there.

Comments

[Jo]

I'm in the same condition, wanting to put everything away or purge it completely. Unfortunately my only recourse is ordering other people around while I sit and heal. Urgh.

[claire]

do you want to get free books in exchange for the books you want to get rid of? check out paperbackswap.com. i'm totally evangelical about it. love it!

[Heather]

No, No! Do not forget the number one Mommy rule- if the kiddos are self amused and safe do not interupt! Because you do need some time to yourself and this kind of free play is very pure and they will forget how to do it as adults. What they are doing with the cards is the advanced version of banging on pots and you do not need to feel guilty. Plus I'm sure right now they think it is the best game ever. Have some guilt free relaxation.