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 …
Hey kids ! What do you think ? Tucker felt a little shy. Nevertheless, he had a dress-up in mind. Amazing color sense, I would say. Lydia is about to lose her hat after which she will lose her head, her pretty sweater and everything in …
The record isn’t complete without a few more dress-up moments. Lydia, Lydia. “Oh, wouldn’t the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at ?” -W.S. Gilbert- (I know some parents who would have grumbled if their children’s teeth had been knocked out.) …
Several hours later, we were still dressing up and pretending. The sun went down but I was snapping away until the last ray of light. Only they, the enraptured actors and actresses can tell you about their experiences. There is no doubt that they approached their dress-ups …
Let’s Take A Look At The Stuff Everything is down low. There is a box for shoes, one for purses, one for scarves, one for wigs, one for props ( claws, swords, and Incredible Hulk Hands are props ) Dresses, shirts, jackets and other clothes hang on the edges of …
You Can Learn So Many Things Through a Camera Lens Poke’man is a foreign language and children are fluent. If left unsupervised, children will let the water out of any rubber pool. Most Poppers never pop. Grown-ups cry when they see F-35 jets fly overhead. Water is more fun when …
WHAT ELSE DID I SEE ? I saw a wonderful grandson who visited with everyone and put his phone in his pocket most of the time. I saw kindness and love among siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles. I saw careful driving although the pirate scarf kept inching down dangerously low over his …
What Else Did I See ? I saw Tucker ride his favorite trike down the hill without crashing. I saw Tucker comfort his cousin Holden when HE crashed. I saw mommy super-heroes have conversations with junior super-heroes. I saw Maya voluntarily take a break to study a real compass. I …
Family Gathering 2018 FAST AND EASY SLIMEY SLIME I had glue left from last year. I had food coloring in the cupboard. I grabbed some liquid starch from the little neighborhood market, since that is the only place that still carries it and that is likely because few people starch …
