Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate storytime for me...

There's an open librarian position I'm waiting to find out if I got an interview for.  I figured hey, why not be proactive while I wait and prepare a storytime, so I'll be ready in the event that I get a happy call?  Rain...that would be a fun topic to cover.  Let's do it!

So I started doing it.  I have the books.  I'm looking at some flannel board activities.

And then I'm working in check-in and someone returns a copy of "A Pirate's Night Before Christmas."  And now I'm sitting on my couch putting together a "Pirate Christmas" themed storytime.  Because that makes sense.

Pirates are so fun, though!  And because a. I have a complete inability to focus on just one thing at a time and b. who knew there were so many cute pirate books out there, I actually decided to do two piratey storytimes, one the strangely specific pirate Christmas, and the other just plain old pirates.  Does that mean I'm actually putting together three storytimes all at once, when I don't even actually do any storytimes at work?  Yes.  Yes, it does.  But in my defense, the only difference between the two pirate themes is the books I'll be including...the songs and flannel board stuff will all be the same.  So...it's 2.5 storytimes.  That's completely acceptable.

Maybe I should just combine them all and do a Rainy Pirate Christmas storytime.  In the meantime...

It's (finally) beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

I started making the above flannel pieces in December, to use when introducing any Christmas-themed storytimes I may end up doing.  Finally finished them...just in time for Christmas in February?

Do I love wintertime too much?

If my concurrent planning of three storytimes relating to the winter season (winter, Christmas, and penguin themes) is any indication, yes...yes, I am.

I tried to limit myself to one storytime, but I have a stack of like thirty books sitting on my living room floor right now, and I was having a really hard time narrowing them down to only three.  I realized all of these books broke down fairly neatly into the above three categories, and there I was, planning three winter-themed storytimes at once and loving every minute of it.

I can't even call it three, really...the psychosis spun so far out of control that it ended up being one penguin-themed storytime, both a toddler- and a preschool-level Christmas storytime (we don't even do storytimes during December where I work--what is wrong with me?!), and at least one winter-themed storytime...possibly two.  I might be crazy.  But that's ok.

Oh, Christmastime, you're my favorite thing in the whole world.