Family Gathering 2019 Afterthoughts are little things that we did during our annual gathering which did not involve everyone but were worth mentioning. Often I had only taken one photograph of a moment and so, that is what I will use to remember things. Grandpa and I bought six sets …
Family Gathering 2019 By Special Request We have seventeen grandchildren. That doesn’t mean that all seventeen play with Moon Sand. A few are college-age and one is brand new. The best time to make Moon Sand is when only a few are on hand. Our grandchildren usually remind us of …
Family Gathering 2019 There is nothing unusual about feeding horses when you come to Grandma’s house. There are some favorites of course and for very good reasons. There are horses in the field and in the stalls and sometimes in the corral. Tucker likes Pip. Pip is a tiny horse …
Family Gathering 2019 Today I Learned About Slime Bubbles Three little ones stayed with me. The rest went for a hike in beautiful Brighton to the mountain lakes named Mary, Martha and Catherine. We at home started the morning with “Cloudy, with a Chance of Meatballs.” As the movie ended …
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 …
