Forbidden books...

Do you have any forbidden books on your bookshelf?

We've had one for quite some time.

For the last 3 years, everytime somebody picked up this book...

...my husband got very nervous.

Because for the last . . . three . . . years . . .

He's been drying leaves in this book.

I wish I would have gotten a "before picture" of the leaves neatly arranged in the pages with post-it notes marking their location.

It's been one of those "out of sight out of mind" projects that seemed to fall into the black hole of good intentions around here.  I have a whole basket of those in my sewing closet.  (And that is just what was left after I purged several of bins from the closet a year or so ago...)

Anyway, the other night, Elizabeth dared to take this book off the shelf to look up the meaning of a name...

After a bit of a scafuffle, we decided that maybe it was time to laminate Daddy's leaf collection. 

So, Beth decorated a box:

And Mike started laminating leaves:

 A couple hours later, I had them all cut out, and it definitely felt like fall in the school room.  :-)   We might be a little confused on our seasons around here, but Daddy's long awaited leaf collection is now complete! And Strong's Concordance is no longer the "forbidden book" on the bookshelf . . .