Find it at the LIBRARY!

As a child living outside of a small-town city limits, I did not have access to a public library. I talked my mom a few times into taking me to the Vidor Public Library (which even now has no internet presence), but I couldn't check anything out because I didn't have a library card. The whole library world just seemed like such a cosmopolitan thing that I fantasized about it. (Yeah, I've always been a nerd.) So of course, I got into the whole library thing. I worked at the library in college. I considered becoming a librarian (until I volunteered in one shelving books.) I've find the right role for libraries in my life now, though, as a mother.

Caroline and I make a weekly (sometimes more) journey to the library. We enjoy the library's programs, like story-times, guest appearances (we saw Mother Goose and several kids' singers this summer), book check-out, cd check-out, dvd check-out. And now we've discovered another fun item to borrow from the library -- ART PRINTS!

At the Cedar Park Public Library, you can check out prints of artwork for one month at a time. I just rearranged our wall hangings and had empty space above the fireplace. Not any more! My plan is to expose Caroline to a different piece of art each month. Our first acquisition? Look at my blog header -- Mary Cassatt's Breakfast in Bed. I plan to switch out our fireplace painting each month. How's that for frugal and educational?

Now, some of you astute readers are saying to yourself. "Um...you live in Austin, not Cedar Park." Right you are! I prefer the CP library to the APL branches near us, so I got a TexShare card that allows me to get library cards of other public libraries in Texas. It's a beautiful system!