Day 3: Getting Carded

We hope you didn't expect this blog to be our sob story.  As mentioned before, loss sucks; like a lot. Our whole goal in this 61 day journey is to grow: grow beyond our loss, grow individually, and grow as a couple.  Today, we grew ourselves as individual members of our town.

When out with our friends John and Sarah earlier this year, they told us about the Noah Webster Library, specifically their awesome kids section. We, especially Cole, were instantly excited about taking our kids there someday.

Ellaine: I loved to read as a little kid. One of my favorite memories growing up was going to the library with my parents and picking out books to read every few weeks. My elementary school participated in a program called "Book It." It encouraged kids to read; for every 10 books you read, you earned a free Pizza Hut pizza and got to ring a special bell. 

Somehow, the enthusiasm for books that I had as a child hasn't carried into adulthood, not because I lost my love of reading; I haven't made the time or effort to pick up a new book in quite some time.

Cole: I grew up far, far away from little Connecticut. Luckily, we had a pretty great library system in Colorado. While I cannot say that I spent my young life at the library, I do remember it fondly. It was a short bike ride away and I visited often with my brothers, Grant and Brett.  

We mainly visited so that we had something to do; there were only so many times you could visit the pool, or Subway (yes, the sandwich shop (CO doesn't actually have any subways)), or Taco Bell, and it blended in with the rest of what we did. We loved picking up books, just to have something to return the next week. Come high school, we learned that there were way bigger libraries with way more books available to us. I can't say that I read most of these books, but I can say that we enjoyed the study space that was far, far away from parental oversight.  

In our four years as West Hartford residents, we never visited the library system. Inherently, we always knew we needed to join, but it was John and Sarah who helped to push us in the right direction. We look forward to growing ourselves in the coming weeks and months by checking out new and different works of literature.