Today’s Homemaker

I went to the library (all by myself!) yesterday, and it was glorious. I was there for a full 45 minutes with no particular purpose or plan. Librarians kept stopping me to ask, “Is there anything I can help you with?” and I just said “No…not at all, actually. Thank you.” It was bliss. I felt like I had stepped into some kind of time warp where I had all the time and freedom one can possibly muster in the span of an hour. And I guess I did.

I left with a handful of books, and a couple of special ones for Nolan. One that particularly mesmerized me was Gaspard and Lisa’s Christmas Surprise, written by Anne Gutman and illustrated by her husband Georg Hallensleben. The illustrations are so beautiful, and you do get a warm, yet off-beat, fuzzy Christmas-y feeling when reading it. Nolan loved it. He especially loves the name “Gaspard”. I do too.

By the way, there is an excellent discussion of favorite children’s books going on over at the Cherry Menlove forum. I cannot get enough!