Family Gathering 2019 Our neighbors have lots of rocks. They have poured them in every spot where they don’t want to have grass. All along the parking strip are rocks. Piles, in fact. I asked Clara and Lydia to sneak out in the dead of night, with a silver bucket, …
Family Gathering 2019 Children always feel better if they know. If you say that you are going to do three things today, they will hound you to death until they can count them. It isn’t so much what is planned but that something is planned at all which might include …
Family Gathering 2019 Questions and Answers About Boat Building Yes. We will build boats. Yes. We will race them in the water. Yes. You can use Grandpa’s tools. Yes. He will help you with the drill. Yes. It is hard to use the staple gun. Yes. You can take your …
Family Gathering 2019 We spent the better part of the day at Manila Lake. It is beautiful, reasonably small or quite large, depending on what you want it to be. It is clean and has a beach with sand and lots of little fish and plenty of room for many …
Family Gathering 2019 History of Family Gathering Dress-Ups For the past five years, we have dressed-up. The girls love to assume different personas and the boys like to have swords and hatchets and the horned helmets of Vikings. The boys always end up staging pretend fights, especially with animals if …
Family Gathering 2019 It is true. Anything that is FUN can also be UN-FUN. That is just the way things are. That is why Henry’s heart is heavy. His balloon popped just as he was ready to put the finishing touches on his unusual animal. I am reminded why we …
It meant nothing to me. It was just a whimsical hat with a label I did not appreciate. I actually wondered why a perfectly nice flowered hat would have such a bright red label with the word Supreme on it when it would have been quite nice without it. Here …
Something was in the hammock swing but I couldn’t see what. I heard Olive squeal with delight but could not imagine what could be causing such excitement. “Stop” she whispered. “Stand back.” Whatever it was, it was half the size of the palm of her hand and before I could …
You can stop now. That is what I always say to the little people in my life who are called grandchildren. Stay four. Don’t turn five, yet. Every parent knows the feeling when a sweet and special child gets too big to do things that are cute. Naturally cute. How …
WHAT WILL I DO? What will I do when my grandchildren grow beyond the little things I love to make for them? Will I just make “little things” in bigger sizes? Will I trade little bears for large bears or tiny pillows for HUGE pillows? I suspect ( as …
