“Did you ever stop to think and forget to start again?” -Winnie-the-Pooh- journal entry: This “tiny tale” is told through a group of sock puppet friends. Each puppet is different and each has a personality. I loved making the puppets and found a little story growing in my head as …
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.” -Winnie-the-Pooh- journal entry: Is there such a thing as time to children? I don’t know. I know that when children want something they know when you have taken too long to get it for them. If children want …
“When I am grown to a man’s estate, I shall be very proud and great, And tell the other girls and boys, NOT to meddle with my toys !” -Robert Louis Stevenson- journal entry: I have a very vivid memory of toy bags I made for my son. I had …
“People who don’t think probably don’t have Brains; rather, they have gray fluff that’s blown into their heads by mistake.” -Winnie-the-Pooh- journal entry: I’m afraid it is true. Lava lamps are never going away. After the Sunday dinner was cleared away, we made Lava Lamps. The idea came from the …
“I realized that if I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.” -Charles Lindbergh- journal entry: The birds sit in the trees, talking to each other, while I fill the feeder and line the railing of the deck with birdseed. I am barely in the house before …
“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 …
