Mouse
01-07-2021, 09:40 AM
Last day of my working week and I've got a busy day.
I've got 3 children here - 2 who play beautifully and one who spends all day trying to intrude on their play and ends up upsetting them all! He's a lovely little chap and just needs a bit of practice on playing together. The other children will each be doing their own thing and he goes from one to another taking what they've got or barging them out of the way. I have to follow him round and either distract him with something else, or model how to play cooperatively!
After work DH and I are going to Ikea to collect a new bookcase for the children's books. I have been using a Kallax unit and that's been overflowing. I've decided I'm going to have a real cull of the books and cut down to just a normal (small) bookcase size collection. It'll be hard because I'm rubbish at getting rid of books, but I really don't need as many as I've got. I've got multiple copies of several books, so my first sweep will be to get rid of any duplicates. After that I'm going to sort them into the 'classics' that we've probably all got and that I'll keep (Gruffalo, Elma etc) and ones that we never read so I'll get rid of them. Then I'll need to decide what I'm going to do with them. Some will go to the charity shop but I'll also see if the school nursery want any. And finally, I need to stop myself from buying any more books! We're back to using the library again, so we have a regular supply of new books without me buying more every time I go out shopping or log onto my Amazon account!
Have good days everyone!
I've got 3 children here - 2 who play beautifully and one who spends all day trying to intrude on their play and ends up upsetting them all! He's a lovely little chap and just needs a bit of practice on playing together. The other children will each be doing their own thing and he goes from one to another taking what they've got or barging them out of the way. I have to follow him round and either distract him with something else, or model how to play cooperatively!
After work DH and I are going to Ikea to collect a new bookcase for the children's books. I have been using a Kallax unit and that's been overflowing. I've decided I'm going to have a real cull of the books and cut down to just a normal (small) bookcase size collection. It'll be hard because I'm rubbish at getting rid of books, but I really don't need as many as I've got. I've got multiple copies of several books, so my first sweep will be to get rid of any duplicates. After that I'm going to sort them into the 'classics' that we've probably all got and that I'll keep (Gruffalo, Elma etc) and ones that we never read so I'll get rid of them. Then I'll need to decide what I'm going to do with them. Some will go to the charity shop but I'll also see if the school nursery want any. And finally, I need to stop myself from buying any more books! We're back to using the library again, so we have a regular supply of new books without me buying more every time I go out shopping or log onto my Amazon account!
Have good days everyone!