a seasonal bookshelf

While the weather is still plenty cold and snow covers the ground, thoughts of spring happily enter my mind.  Isn't February ironically always the longest month of the year?  Thank goodness it's March!  I'm ready to get out of the house, breathe some fresh air, and feel my feet hit the pavement.  

I am staying as busy as I can with things to do around the house because I know that when the nice weather hits, we will be outside as much as possible.  I get so involved with new projects (isn't there always a better way to organize something?) sometimes I forget about old ones that are working great - as is.

We have been using this bookshelf for almost 3 years now (and AJ has yet to climb it...which would potentially almost certainly break a dowel rod)  At the time we designed the playroom, I showed Dan a few photos and being the amazingly talented husband that he is, he whipped this up in no time.  It fills in wall space in the playroom nicely without looking heavy, sticking out very far, or taking up precious floor space.  The bright colors from children's books coordinate nicely with the rest of the playroom (maybe I'll post some pictures when it's clean?)  I love it.  

But what I love most is seeing my kids take books off the shelf and sit down to read or bring them to me to read.  It's great! We keep board books near the bottom for AJ and nicer ones toward the top for Hannah.  We have quite a collection of kids books going now which is fun because we can rotate the books in the playroom seasonally.  Today we dug through the books and found as many with bunnies and chicks and spring colors as we could.  Yay for Spring...it's almost here!