Attitude

I told Alan hours before this picture that there was a sticker on his forehead and he replied - yeh. Holly put it there.

I really wish I had that attitude sometimes.

He left the sticker on his head until time for a bath.

Overall I think things have been better here lately where attitudes are concerned. There was that meltdown Julia had when I woke her up at her friend's house after a sleepover that didn't include much sleeping because we had to be somewhere and she needed to come home. And there have been times when I wonder how much of the "tween" attitude the kindergartner and the little sister are starting to mimic. But overall I think it's improving.

The washing dishes thing is helping. They've been taking turns. The girls were alternating nights until last night when Alan announced it was his turn to help with the dishes. And he did a good job (it was an especially messy night for dishes). I think I should have had then helping me earlier. Julia even claimed it's her favorite chore. There's progress.

Other things on my mind... is it possible to have too many books?

I always thought the answer was no. There's that expert opinion somewhere that it's good for a child's development to be in a house with lots of books available. However, we seem to be running out of bookshelf space very quickly. And so many books they look at once and never again. And so many books that are not in the right reading level... with a library just down the street it's hard for me to justify making space for a lot of the little paperbacks that are too easy for Holly and too hard for Alan and maybe ones he won't be interested in anyway.

But I find it hard to get rid of books.

Because someone might want to read one that we used to have. One day.

I wish I could treat things like wanting to get rid of books like a little sticker on my forehead. Oh well. Life just goes on. So what.

Tonight it's got me stuck looking for a place to stash a small stack that wouldn't fit on the shelf in the girls' room instead.