My sweet little sister (ok - younger sister - she is a head taller than me...) told me how she was laughing at me for writing about cleaning house. In retrospect, I guess it is kinda mundane, but so much of a mothers life is - she will find that out in time, she is still living the carefree life of a married woman with no babies underfoot. Just you wait sister! 
So I promised pictures, and I did take pictures. Then I realized the before and after look the same to the 'untrained' eye - well actually to any eye but mine they look the same! I dug around a bit and here are some pictures of how they looked to me...
*Note - not my shelves, just a representation of how I felt before and after the clean up!*
Before:
After:
My shelves are not this pretty - but they invoke this feeling when I look at them now. I seperated the books according to topic - Science, History, Poetry and Art, Easy Readers, Advanced Readers and Sonlight Cores (those are all neatly labelled on the spine and easy to find!)
Now when we want to reach for a book, they are easy to find, which means the neglected stories that were lost in the messy shelf now have a home among like books and are actually being read  - which is the point of having books in the first place isn't it?
While I was looking for these photos, I came across this...
It looks pretty, but I don't think it would work for us, I need our books arranged by topic. But still, it is pretty.... maybe one day when I have nothing better to do I will give it a try... that day should be here in about 15 years!
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