Personalities When you are growing up and you are the oldest, it is sometimes all you can do to put up with the silliness of siblings and cousins. Perhaps you remember. If you were one of the children in this photograph, you would be able to use this and other …
This is one of my favorite family photographs. It is all about body language and facial expressions, a new dog and an escaped toddler. It is about the child in the red hoodie who is always in the middle and the wisdom of the oldest child which she is sharing …
Dear Grandchildren: I have embarked on a journey through all of the photographs I have taken of you over many, many years. I am determined to give each of you the photo stories that touch my heart every time I see them. Even without a word of explanation, the photos …
journal entry: Here is a second post about things kids can do while they are at home. Perhaps good weather will come soon and our attention can turn to playing in the yard. Some kids just might like having a tent in the yard when it is raining or snowing. …
journal entry: Okay. Let’s think about things to do. Before you roll your eyes and say that it is easy for me to tell someone with a houseful of confined, small, children how to get through the day . . . you might remember that I have made a Grandmotherhood …
I will tell you what happened today. Maya loves my stamps. Every time she comes to visit, she picks out a few. Then she spends quite a bit of time pouring over the stamp pads and coordinating the colors. She easily found the stamp cleaner and the wet-wipes. Next she …
This Christmas I made a bunch of Toasty Warm Bean Bags. I was motivated to do so by the fact that our trusty bean bag has been used so much that it has started to smell like it is burning. There is nothing like a bean bag in the microwave …
Oh the fun I had finding the Fashionistas for this Memory/Matching Game. It has been suggested that to grow old gracefully in today’s enlightened world you have to throw all convention and good taste to the wind and layer it on. While I don’t ascribe to that point of view …
Yes, it is Christmas again and we miss those who are not nearby and we love to see those who are. Why don’t you take a little tour of our home this Christmastime. We hope you feel like you are here. Let’s start with a cozy, warm home. This is …
Not everything I find in a thrift store is a treasure. Most things are just interesting things that someone else has grown tired of looking at and I have found to be just the thing for me to look at until I am tired of looking at the thing and …
