Turn the Page!

When I was pregnant, the hubby and I would spend Sunday afternoons at our local Borders bookstore scouring the shelves for books that would teach us how to breathe during labor, the right baby name to choose, how to avoid scarring our unborn child for life and other fun reads.

In fact, throughout my life, the bookstore has always been a place of refuge for me. I LOVE the smell of new books, the Black ink on paper, the front cover designs that give you a peek into what the book is about, the feel of a new book in hand...amazing!  Oh, how I adore the possibilities that lie within endless shelves of books... the worlds they behold and the stories and information just waiting patiently inside for someone to...well, turn the page.

So this week, when I decided a trip to the bookstore would be the perfect outing for my almost-three year old, my heart sank when I remembered there was NO bookstore.  Our closest Borders, my place of refuge, the actual place we agreed on our son's name while studying "1,000 Best Baby Names" was gone!  Yes, Borders was a victim to storm of online book sales and the changing book industry.

I was seriously sad when I realized that I had to add bookstore to the list of things that my son's generation will probably have no use for: Boom box, Cd's, VHS, Post Office, and now bookstore :- (

Then, I remembered the library...oh yes, the next best thing to my lovely Borders.  Even though the library doesn't serve the great teas or coffee I enjoyed at Borders, they do have the obvious advantage that their books are F-R-E-E!  So off we went to explore the library on a Monday evening.

K was just as excited about the endless shelves of books at the library and so we skipped to he children's section to find the some books.  K grabbed as many picture books as he could in his little hands, he was just that excited!

We sat down and with a Cheshire cat-like grin, K asked, "Mom, can I please turn the page?!"  

"Yes, please do...please turn the page!"