You can imagine that we have more than a few books lying around the house. And when I say “lying,” I mean lounging around wherever they may be most comfortable.
The bookcases are a bit crowded, so many of the books have hopped down and started an apartment complex of sorts around the walls of the office. My nightstand is more like a commune, no rhyme or reason to the titles which have gathered there; some stay only a few days, others hang around for months.
Not the actual stack J tripped over ... but a reasonable facsimile!
Our kids’ books are not immune to this. Often a favorite picture book will hurl itself off the coffee table to the floor below; maybe it simply wants a little “alone” time. Like lemmings, other books follow, and soon there’s a small heap in the middle of the family room floor.
J was negotiating one such book heap earlier this week. Well, he was trying to navigate it, but didn’t quite clear the stack, and ended up tripping awkwardly, pulling his shoulder as he broke his fall.
“Why do they have to have all these books?!?” he grimaced, as he rubbed the shoulder. “Why can’t they just watch TV like normal kids?!?”
Yes, he really said it. But he was kidding. I think. I hope!
The nerve! I think he needs his mouth washed out with soap.
LOL…..Then he’d be tripping on DVDs….I’d go with the books. Poor J.
I’m hoping that those words were said just in a moment of frustration. tsk, tsk.
Too funny! I’m sure he was joking!
Then you’d just have open DVDs all of the place. Trust me…I know!
DVDs on the floor – or little DVD players – and they’d each want their own!
I think he was serious! I think you and all your books have ruined his life!
If not, I am sure something else you did/will do has/will ruin his life. It is the way of things…lol
LOL! That’s hilarious. These books, I tell you, when they get together and form their book communes all over nightstands and desks and floors, they just have minds of their own. You never know when they might trip you or fall on you or multiply without your knowledge…. Believe me, I know.
Ah, the tortured life of a bibliophile’s husband. They should start a new TV series about this.
Haha! Looks and sounds like our house. Our home library has doubled since we had kids.
Sounds like my husband! The books are slowly taking over the house at this point!
Yes … he better be kidding!!!!
GAH! Love it!!! I would also reading at bedtime when the kids were growing up – but not tv…. If I caught them up late with a book – I never said a word.
ha ha…I am sure he was kidding…. but ha ha… there is many a truth said in jest….. ha ha…still laughing here…
That’s hysterical! Obviously you’re setting a great example for the kids, Dawn, with your love of reading
OMG! I’ll pretend not to have read that!
I love this post. I’m so glad there are households with not-normal children in them. Very refreshing. That pile in the picture is just pure art.
So glad someone else has book piles like I do! (We’re fortunate to have someone come clean the house once a month, and I always get raised eyebrows and “Are these really all your kids’ books?” … as if I am the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, with so many books she didn’t know what to do.
LOL!!! I love it! I hope he’s okay.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL Love it. Mr. BFR just shakes his head and tries really, really hard to keep his mouth shut. He ain’t no dummy.
Oh boy he had better have been kidding or he’ll have the bloggy world on his tail. lol.
I’ve given up trying to keep my books even semi organized. I moved one thing on my nightstand last week and it came tumbling down. lol.
No one in my immediate family was a reader at all when I was a kid so I would have loved to have all of those back then lol.
Normal is over-rated!! LOL
Too funny !