I actually accomplished nearly everything on my list this weekend. That does not happen often. Granted the list was not long, but still, that was quite satisfying.
Saturday I went to the library by myself which was absolutely luxurious. I spent about an hour just scanning the fiction shelves. I had a list of new releases in my hot little hand but they were all checked out. I put them on hold, and ended up with a couple of novels that should hopefully keep me occupied on the commute for the next week or so.
Sunday we made it to story time at the new Barnes & Noble. It was so lame! So sorry that I sort of rushed us all out the door for that one. It was just a weird woman sitting on the stage, reading from a dorky Disney version of Winnie the Pooh. I can do better than that in my own living room. But the good news is the store is beautiful. And the kids section is really lovely (I especially liked the mural of favorite children’s book characters: Eloise, the Cow jumping over the Moon (from Goodnight, Moon), Harold, from Harold and the Purple Crayon). It’s almost entirely enclosed, which meant I could let both kids kind of wander around without being too worried about them going in completely opposite directions. My heart still goes into my stomach if I can't SEE them both at all times and this did happen about twice. Luckily, Leo seems to be nearly out of his wandering aimlessly stage (at least when there are books around to distract him) and Ellie is at least for now, on the mellow side. She even sort of listens to me if I call her (unlike some people, ahem). She was quite content to climb over the store’s small wooden chairs and the stage, and also to take the baby board books off the shelves.
I’ll always be a library girl but I have to say it was pretty nice hanging out in a brand new bookstore with crisp new books, and it makes such a difference when the books are displayed covers out, as opposed to spines only. You can really see the books better that way (duh). Oh and did I mention there's a Starbucks? And although I’m sure the store wasn’t happy about it, we managed to leaving without spending any money (except at Starbucks). You know what else is great? The kids can fight all they want about wanting to read the Same Book at the Same Time because there are multiple copies of all books. Hurrah!
You can say what you want about boring chain stores but I think I know where we’ll be hanging out a lot this winter.
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