Organizing Thursday: Book Rack Storage Bookshelf
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We have this $29 bookshelf in the “primary colors” version, and honestly I’d have pulled the trigger a lot quicker on it if I’d seen this more elegant espresso/white version. The books-forward bookcase is great for toddlers and littles who aren’t speaking well yet but who can point at the book they want when they see the cover; we also find it useful for series like Golden Books where there is nothing written on the spine of the book or the “I Can Read” type books that are so thin everyone’s squinting at the book anyway. (Honestly we also use the bookshelf to store a random keyboard that gets trampled on elsewhere.) The “shelves” are made of cloth so it’s very light weight — we go crazy anchoring furniture and I’ve never been very concerned about this one. The bookshelf is $29, available in five color combos. (The matching “affordable” toy storage organizer, $59, also comes in the espresso/white version — again we have it in primary colors, but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it because both boys tend to take everything out of every bin and dump/throw it in a huge mess and then walk away until someone (Mommy) sorts it and then they repeat the process, hence our recent switch to toy bins that click/lock shut. Perhaps if your kids are less obsessed with chaos than mine it’s a good purchase…) Pictured: Tot Tutors Kids Book Rack Storage Bookshelf
Psst: to those commenters wondering about how you fit an entire kids’ library on these — you don’t. At least I don’t. We have most of the books in our old Expedit (5×5) for the kids but they’re overflowing there too — I just use these little shelves for “display” (as in look, Mom got you new books from the library, don’t they look fun!) or to keep the “most-loved books of the moment” out and reachable. I try to rotate books but… yeah.
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My kids’ daycare has shelves like this, and I think the best benefit of them is that it is so much easier for the kids to put the books away neatly on this type of shelf. At home, every time I tell my kids to put their books away and they end up every which way on the traditional book shelf, I have to hold myself back from straightening them because messy bookshelves drive me bonkers. vs at school, they know to make the cover picture right-side up and facing out. Regardless, I’m sticking with the messy traditional shelves because we don’t have space, we actually have too many books for this type of shelf, and the kids will learn spatial reasoning soon. I hope.
Looking at a job in grants management at a foundation – no one on the main board had anything positive to say about working for a foundation, anyone on here have thoughts?
I am worried about losing the flexibility of my current role but really interested in the subject matter.
Anyone else have swollen ureter tubes show up baby in ultrasounds? They showed up on my anatomy and I had a followup yesterday at 34 weeks and they were still swollen. Kidneys look normal. I will obviously discuss with our pediatrician but my OB didn’t really want to comment much on it since it is in the pediatrician’s jurisdiction.
Rather than turn to Dr. Google, I wanted to see if any of you ladies had the same situation and what came about because of it?
Shopping help please! I need lightweight toddler shorts – ripstop, canvas or basketball short material – with a real drawstring or adjustable waist with the buttons & elastic at the sides. (We were handed down a pair from Old Navy but of course I can’t find the same style again online.) Last summer my son grew out of some of his shorts in length without ever growing into the waist. Sigh. TIA!
Extra points if they’re easy to pull down. He’s 2 and we might begin potty training this summer…
I’m a big fan of the carters pull-on shorts, especially the terry ones. I don’t think they have a real drawstring, but they seem to fit my tall, skinny kids. (I just think short shorts on little boys are the cutest, so I don’t mind if they look shorter than they are intended to — shorts are a lot easier than pants.)
I posted a while ago about breast pump coverage under the ACA. My insurance (Aetna) covers a new breast pump every 3 years. My first baby was two years ago, but I was covered under a different insurance plan. I really want a Spectra – would it be terrible if I fill my prescription for a breast pump this time around? (Medela PISA was my previous breast pump.)