Quote of the Day

Today I overheard my 5 year old talking to his friend who lives next door. He was telling his friend about the summer reading club at the library. Yesterday we stopped by (for an hour with just about every other person) and he got his prize for completing 1000 minutes of reading this summer. He showed his friend the prize (an art set) and asked his friend if he was doing the summer reading club.
Friend: "No, I don't really go to libraries."
My 5 year old: "We only go when our books are overdue."

Proud Parent Moment #530 is brought to you by your local library.

Overdue

Yesterday I took my kids to the library. The library has a show every Tuesday at 7pm during the summer. Last night was a kids rock band called "Recess Monkey." They were great. I think we've only missed one show this year. Before the show we return our books and get new books.
Yesterday afternoon I logged onto the library website. I checked which books were due. I renewed some and some couldn't be renewed (you can't renew more than twice and you can't renew if there are holds waiting). I made a pile of the books that had to be returned because they would become overdue. The kids moaned and groaned because they weren't finished with all of the books. They looked at a few in the afternoon.
After dinner I put all of the books into the bag to take to the library. I also collected books from the kids' bedrooms upstairs. My 7 year old brought some more books that he was finished with. We went to the library, returned the books, checked out new books and watched the show.
This morning I found 3 books that were in my original pile that had to be returned last night. I asked my kids how these books were left behind. They have no idea. How does this happen???? I put these books in the pile to be returned yesterday. Every other book that was in that pile was returned. How did these get left behind??? Must be magic!
Looks like I'll be making another trip to the library today.