The Book Nook

This is the book nook. It's the area under the basement steps, and we've outfitted it with a beanbag chair and lots of books. One of the things I did this earlier this summer was rearrange our books downstairs so all of the storybooks are here in one place - in our crate "bookcase" system. I was pretty pleased with how it had worked. All three of the boys like to sit there and read or look at books. It's fairly easy for them to return the books to the crates. They like that it's cozy.


Then, the day after I did it, I walked downstairs and saw this:


As you could imagine, my heart sank. I didn't want to look in the book nook; I was afraid of what I'd find. But I did look. And sure enough ...



It was a huge mess. The first name that came to mind? Alex. So I calmly - gently - sweetly called him over and asked if he'd emptied out the crates. He was promptly told me yes, he had. But he had a perfectly good reason for dumping all the books.

"Me was playing with the crates, Mama!"