On my library trips, I always come home with two Envirosax full of books and magazines for moiself and my little boy. I go there every week. Stefan checks out the car magazines or sits down to read while I pace the magazine aisles. Current issues of magazines circulate a month later. I'm happy if I am able to get previous issues of magazines that I read, or sometimes duplicates of the current issues, but this is very rare. Home design and improvement magazines are my first hit, also because they're on the first aisle. Then I check out lifestyle, parenting, fashion, and food magazines, in that order. Gossip magz are often outdated, so they’re at the bottom of my list.
With such a busy life, I don’t really have time for long reads anymore. Hence, the magazines that I can read now, put aside then get back to later. Best of all there’s no commitment.
Going down, I let Stefan play on the track table, with the computer, or with the other kids, while I suss out the children’s books row by row, top to bottom. There’s tons of books for every age group, subgrouped into different subjects, while the rest are arranged by author. I am not partial to any, but I have so far enjoyed the comic stories of Robert Munsch and the rhymes in Dr. Seuss’. I am sweeping these 2 shelves before I pick a few from the self-help books, i.e. teaching manners, feelings, empathy, all that stuff. Then a few Ready-to-Read and Early Readers books, those that Stefan can read on his own or at least try to. He is an early reader, his teachers say. Then the rest would be of what currently interests him. Right now, it’s Dinosaurs and Solar System.
On my way to the check-out, more books will grab me. Here it’s Thrifty Chic and Slow Cooker Recipes. I’m going back to work next month and that means I won’t be having enough time to cook meals from scratch. This cookbook might be helpful. But first I have to wake up my hibernating slow cooker.
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Somebody’s not allowed to read while on the car, so the moment we get home, Stefan skims through all his books while I make dinner, not yet with the slow cooker!
