Mother Goose songs and stories have entertained children for hundreds of years. When my first son was born my first book purchase was this one and when he was just tiny I read the nursery rhymes and fantasies from its pages … singing those from the Record Album I owned as a child. I [...]
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After reading through a few blogs tonight of some of the girls who grew up with my children … girls I used to teach in Primary and Young Women’s, it made me wish I could click on blogs of all the kids I used to teach … who are now grown and have children of [...]
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This is it … the one and only car I ever drove so fast I got a ticket. “How do you get a speeding ticket in a 1977 Volkswagen Bus,” you say? You fill it up with noisy children and the Beach Boys on cassette and head to Salt Lake City … the rest is [...]
I had started some bits of this and that last night before I sent to bed and I think the boogie man swiped them sometime before morning because they are gone. I hate when that happens … when the computer has a mind of its own and edits or erases indiscriminately. I can just hear [...]
Okay, this sounds kind of … radical … but when you’re on the 5th day of a rotten summer cold you start getting desperate. I stumbled on this link that’s telling me I can kill cold viruses by singing opera … or shaking them to death … and it’s scientifically proven. I’m certain that if [...]
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If you were to ask me how far back I can remember there is one very early memory that comes to my mind … I would have had to have been two years old or less. I remember the events of the above picture, Dad holding me and telling me not to go near the [...]
I was going through some old slides today and boy did it bring back memories! It is good to go back and look at pictures now and remember the “good old days”. These were taken at Christmas in 1976. This is probably the only picture of the afghan I made in high school. I don’t [...]
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This picture of changing an old fashioned diaper was taken in 1973 … Remember the processes? Rinsing the diapers, rinsing soiled ones in the toilet, diaper pails, washing them, drying, folding … It took a lot of time, particularly if you were lucky enough to have two in diapers at once. And look [...]
Kimi helps mom make it. Brett proudly displays what he decorated it himself. Stunned silence after the cake splatters on the ground. Trying to pick up the pieces See, Brett … this part is okay … Brett mourns. Technorati Tags: Child’s Disappointment, Picture Story
Remember the first time you saw this Xeroxed picture floating around? I liked it way back then and I like it now … Never Give Up! That frog is squeezing for all its worth hoping the bird will pass out before he does. His choice to hang on or let go is a life altering [...]
