“Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.” -Author Unknown- journal entry: I have a thing about pincushions. I really ought to look into it. I know that Snow White felt like a pincushion and it took a prince to fix things for her. I just like to be …
“Often when you think you’re at the end of something you’re at the beginning of something else.” -Mr. Rogers- journal entry: When my children were young they played at home or at a neighbor’s house who had children the same age. I sent my children back and forth, always to …
“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.” -Winnie-the-Pooh- journal entry: That is how I feel about my special room. It isn’t big but it isn’t small. It is full of color, texture, fabric, paper, glue, …
“When we’re helping, we’re happy and we sing as we go, For we like to help mother, for we all love her so.” -A Primary Song- journal entry: Chores, chores chores. They never go away and children never quit taking an hour to pick up one piece of paper. I …
“It is remarkable how overnight, a quiet mature lady can learn to sit cross-legged on the floor and play a tin drum, quack like a duck, sing all the verses of This Old Man, make paper flowers, draw pigs and sew sock puppets who can talk with funny voices . …
“If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give them a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.” -author unknown- journal entry: I think that it is okay to think you are a robot. Or that a robot is alive. …
“Grandmas don’t just say ‘That’s nice’ . . . they reel back and roll their eyes and throw up their hands and smile. You get your money’s worth out of grandmas !” -Author Unknown- journal entry: Where was I when my little daughters were this age? I don’t recall knowing …
“I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.” -Ogden Nash- journal entry: I believe what I believe about robots and matching games. I believe that they are great fun and than even I can play them with my grandchildren and occasionally get a match. I believe that there …
“I don’t have enough bracelets . . . I don’t have enough bracelets. Who has my bracelets ! I can’t live without my bracelets !” -Miss Piggy- journal entry: Girls can be a little piggies about their fancy things. They have to share their fancy things with their sisters but …
“I meant what I said and I said what I meant !” Dr. Suess journal entry: It is easy to forget what your children actually and did and didn’t do when they were young. I have heard many a grandmother (including my own mother) tell their children, …
