Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

This week I went through ALL our history books, pulled ones the boys have outgrown, which I find that part depressing.   That means they are growing up, moving on, becoming responsible young men.  Oh, now that part is good.

The shelves were cleared, books were put into piles according to their ages; Ancients, Middle Ages, and then I had to leave those general time periods to get more specific, Explorers, Pilgrims and Early Explorations, Revolutionary War, Early 1800’s, Civil War—those books take over a 3′ book shelf, Late 1800’s, WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, and all the post WW2 books.   Then I went through all our fiction books that we just have and, gulp, shelved them according to the author’s last name.   It was good going through them all.  Refueling, which is what I needed.  Amazingly ScienceKid was refreshed by it too, and MilitaryKid discovered a few books in the process that he wants to read now.

Then I skimmed through all our science and math books and pulled a few of them too.   What a huge pile of books.  Last night I entered all the book titles and conditions into the PC, sent it off to a few friends in my area to see what they might like to grab, and in a few days will start listing the items here and over at WTM For Sale Boards.   Presently the list is 6 pages, single spaced for the most part, in length.  My boys are not hard on books so all of them are in great condition, and many look brandy new.

So, check back for the list early in the week.

Oh, and our school room now looks neat and tidy, without piles of books laying on the floor since there wasn’t any room for them on one of the 44 x3′ long shelves, or 132 feet, or  1,584 inches of bookshelf space.    My living room on the other hand looks different with piles and piles of books, so please buy some!