The book gnome

I'm sure you've heard of the sock gnome, who goes around stealing 1 foot of every sock you own, but we have a book gnome. Whenever anyone around here starts reading any book, the book gnome comes and carries it away.

So this morning when Jordan and I are preparing to go over her lessons in What Your 3rd Grader Needs to Know the book seems to be gone...no where to be found. I had to find an alternate lesson for today which was to have her write a story using vocabulary words I already pulled from the book, and I will have to keep my eyes peeled for it today so we can do our review tomorrow.

This problem was even worse when the kids were in school because books would disappear that I would have to pay for and beg the teacher to get a replacement... Also the kids would get punished severely for losing books so often. I've completely given up on having a library card because our late fees and missing book fees were through the roof. It is cheaper to just buy!