Comments on: angsty holiday post, number one http://www.makingthingsup.com/2008/12/angsty-holiday-post-number-one/ A woman with a husband, four kids, and the occasional witty anecdote. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:50:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: sari http://www.makingthingsup.com/2008/12/angsty-holiday-post-number-one/comment-page-1/#comment-3504 sari Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:00:24 +0000 http://www.makingthingsup.com/?p=1321#comment-3504 My boys know that when we go to our favorite local bookstore, I will usually always buy them a book. I'm a sucker that way. I only get one Christmas book for each of them, and I don't plan it out. I just walk in and find what I like. That way I know, there are still always all those other ones for all those other occasions. I will admit to having MANY books I've never even read yet and I still buy them. My boys know that when we go to our favorite local bookstore, I will usually always buy them a book. I’m a sucker that way.

I only get one Christmas book for each of them, and I don’t plan it out. I just walk in and find what I like. That way I know, there are still always all those other ones for all those other occasions.

I will admit to having MANY books I’ve never even read yet and I still buy them.

]]> By: admin http://www.makingthingsup.com/2008/12/angsty-holiday-post-number-one/comment-page-1/#comment-3493 admin Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:20:39 +0000 http://www.makingthingsup.com/?p=1321#comment-3493 Lisa, I wish I were together enough to get to garage sales. I swear I'm never even dressed before noon on the weekends. AD, I have been to Portland, I totally know Powell's, and now I want to come visit you and sleep on your couch so that I too can walk to Powell's. (Though I did just order a couple of books from them, so I guess I don't need to come <i>right</i> now.) Madeline, I just keep installing more bookshelves. :) I haven't managed to talk Dane into bookshelves all down the (skinny skinny) hallway, but I keep trying. Anjali, I like that explanation. It's not that I'm decorating our house with precariously-balanced stacks of books, it's that I'm creating lifelong memories. Lisa, I wish I were together enough to get to garage sales. I swear I’m never even dressed before noon on the weekends.

AD, I have been to Portland, I totally know Powell’s, and now I want to come visit you and sleep on your couch so that I too can walk to Powell’s. (Though I did just order a couple of books from them, so I guess I don’t need to come right now.)

Madeline, I just keep installing more bookshelves. :) I haven’t managed to talk Dane into bookshelves all down the (skinny skinny) hallway, but I keep trying.

Anjali, I like that explanation. It’s not that I’m decorating our house with precariously-balanced stacks of books, it’s that I’m creating lifelong memories.

]]> By: Anjali http://www.makingthingsup.com/2008/12/angsty-holiday-post-number-one/comment-page-1/#comment-3491 Anjali Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:46:40 +0000 http://www.makingthingsup.com/?p=1321#comment-3491 I finished the shopping for the girls, and I have already thought of about a dozen other books I should have bought them. I think that good books create memories of a lifetime. Good toys come and go, but it's the books we seem to remember forever. I think that's why it's so easy to be attached to them! I finished the shopping for the girls, and I have already thought of about a dozen other books I should have bought them.

I think that good books create memories of a lifetime. Good toys come and go, but it’s the books we seem to remember forever. I think that’s why it’s so easy to be attached to them!

]]> By: Madeline http://www.makingthingsup.com/2008/12/angsty-holiday-post-number-one/comment-page-1/#comment-3490 Madeline Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:47:06 +0000 http://www.makingthingsup.com/?p=1321#comment-3490 Yeah, I have a wee bit of a book addiction too. I'm running out of space to keep them all. Yeah, I have a wee bit of a book addiction too. I’m running out of space to keep them all.

]]> By: A.D. http://www.makingthingsup.com/2008/12/angsty-holiday-post-number-one/comment-page-1/#comment-3489 A.D. Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:41:10 +0000 http://www.makingthingsup.com/?p=1321#comment-3489 I have some sort of bipolar booklist thing going on. I load it up with a b'zillion titles, then delete the whole thing, because Charlotte Mason is my homeschooling muse and her book standards are so high... But dang, who ever thought you could own so many board books and still be sick and tired of ALL of them??? Oh yeah, and we can walk to Powell's. (Well, we could, before we were carrying a baby along. It's still a short train ride.) Have you been to Portland? Do you know Powell's? Oh, man, I want to go buy books now... I have some sort of bipolar booklist thing going on. I load it up with a b’zillion titles, then delete the whole thing, because Charlotte Mason is my homeschooling muse and her book standards are so high… But dang, who ever thought you could own so many board books and still be sick and tired of ALL of them??? Oh yeah, and we can walk to Powell’s. (Well, we could, before we were carrying a baby along. It’s still a short train ride.) Have you been to Portland? Do you know Powell’s? Oh, man, I want to go buy books now…

]]> By: Lisa http://www.makingthingsup.com/2008/12/angsty-holiday-post-number-one/comment-page-1/#comment-3488 Lisa Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:13:54 +0000 http://www.makingthingsup.com/?p=1321#comment-3488 We book addicts here too - recently we discovered the world of local garage sales and it is book heavan! We book addicts here too – recently we discovered the world of local garage sales and it is book heavan!

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