Mothering Many

This week, I am in the living room, and I tackled the bookcases. Here is the before shot:

Here is the after:

You can’t see in the picture, but there were actually four bookshelves involved in today’s tackle. Here is my favorite part:

These are the books that I read to the littles before quiet time. I moved them out of the school area and into the living room. Speaking of reading books to littles, yesterday I read to the babies a book I had read to my oldest. It’s called The Book of Shadowboxes, and it was one of her particular favorites. I almost cried all through it.

You know, I have almost reached the point where I can see the light at the end of the busybabydays child raising tunnel. I thought I’d be glad to get here, but it’s killing me instead.