when i went off to college i noticed something you start to have your own book collection. I suppose that is when it really starts you get a book collection , it can either be school books or books you read in leisure or books you need to read for school - lit students always seem to have a really good collection cause well they like to read. Anyways I decided soon after starting college and my moving spree that i wanted to have a good collection. i in-visioned having a huge bookshelf full of books. The two houses i have lived in had book cases - i was very proud of the first bookcase i used because i almost filled up the whole thing with all my books making me realize i had more than i thought. Then when we moved here - we now have a glorious bookcase. it's huge. takes up almost the whole wall. it's wonderful. top to bottom shelves. the first top shelves are full with cd's - yes this could of been utilized better probably by books and use a few cd towers for the cds but alas i have a huge cd collection as well and i have cd towers they get in the way and take up too much space , we had three at the old house and still had an overflow of cases. -maybe one day well do a cleaning get rid of them all and keep all cds in the cd books we have which are almost full as well. anyways the other top shelf is for some of our movie collection - got a lot of those - i probably could have fit these in some other place but i gave up one cabinet for rileys hidden toy place - anyways the rest of it down is filled with books .. which looking at it is very nice - somewhat a sense of accomplishment. i'm missing one book that i really really want that i use to have but lost - called the golden apple - bout the Trojan war - read it in 7th grade and loved it. one of the few school books in high school i read - anyways there is a slight flaw in my collection- a self help book- yes i at one point - i think i was not fully thinking- ventured into the self help section - thinking well this book really isn't self help , how funny that they put it in this section- and bought this book. other than that i love my collection- ex specially my ever growing young adults / children collection. i've already handed down my kid collection of dr s' and other children / toddler books i had - her new collection is located on the very bottom level. - growing up and still to this day my parents own a ton of books they are everywhere . (maybe this is why i want just a ton of bookshelves) but alas all their books deal in some sort of way with either travel or psychology, a few deal with history- other than that not a ton of diversity. i wish i had wanted to read more in high school - i had more time in in my life then- probally a lot of time i wasted - plus i was always grounded cause of grades - of and on - bout every other semester during 10th and 11th - that time i could have read... oh well.

anyways the reason i even started to think about books is because today i was cleaning out some of riley's things and getting re organized. seeing what clothes she needs and such- getting clothes she doesn't fit in anymore together for her cousin. organizing her toys and her room. so it got me thinking what else i could move around and where everything was. making sure i was organized and as tidy as could be - all that coming from the mess i created in our last house of just pure clutter.
Sometimes i wish i could go back t0 a time when i enjoyed being barefoot running thru the neighborhood , going on adventures. i dunno what happened but lately i can't stand for my feet to feel dirty- feeling the dirt on my feet = yucky. maybe it'll just pass.

right now i'm surrounded by a tuckered out family riley is laying on the floor with her blanket and lela is laying right beside me on the couch.

todays best moment - sitting in the car listening to music on the way home and riley after being oh so quiet ever so softly saying hey momma.

swimming on monday and i cannot wait- diving , laps, sun bathing. i can't wait.

if you got this far and read all - you deserve a gold star- here you go!