for back to school!

We have a new face in the library this year. Madison Kirkman is working on her master's degree in counseling and will be with us on Thursday and Friday most weeks! Please come by the library and introduce yourself.

We had a great open house last night! It was so exciting to see familiar and new faces. We had book drawings. Last night's lucky winners are: Evie Smith Aiden Dalton Keeleigh Reid Cooper Crabbe Paulina Morales Samara Shepard Ian Long Jade Wilson More open house winners will be drawn next week! Please check out the Library web page  for ways to volunteer this year! [gallery ids="312,313,314,315,316,317,310,309,308,307,306,305,304"]

We painted the walls white. I say that with some trepidation. In my home-improvement related reading, I've found people have very strong opinions about white. We'd had deep blue walls for years, and I was just plain tired of it. OK, it also looked like it had been around for years. Paints of the past were not of the same quality as those found today. We also live in a center townhouse, so we only have windows in the front and back of the house. White really brightened things up. What became quickly evident however was that the white furniture that looked fabulous next to the blue walls made the house look like a sanitarium. After searching miles and miles of paint chips. We decided on Valspar's Jekyll Sans Souci Green with black accents. Valspar has a nice little color selector that allows you to save your colors. I've got nothing to disclose here. I paid for the paints I used at Lowes. Here's the chip. Here are a couple of pieces before the painting. This is just ...

I love to write. I know, I know. You certainly can't tell that by the frequency of my blog posts. I've been thinking  recently  seriously about what to post. I've got teaching tips for the library and remodeling ideas to share. But I've actually got to stop doing those things to write about them.. It's just one more evening painting and then that one more becomes a week. Or one more week reorganizing shelves and then it's a month.  Then some how winter has completely passed and it's miraculously spring. But I've been doing and thinking about writing as I'm doing and then doing some more. Here is an incomplete list so things I wanted to write about (and maybe I still will . . .) Master bath renovation (1st week of December. Oh my goodness can we say terrible timing many many times?) Stripping wall paper in hall and stairway. Repairing walls. Painting room after room after room. Researching flooring and cabinet paints. Reading numerous (I ha...

A couple of weeks ago, all students present in 2nd - 5th grades got to vote for their favorite books for a March Madness Bracket. The Sweet 16 is up and ready for the next round of voting!

2nd graders read  What's the Time, Mr. Wolf? and then made clocks to display important times in their days.