Good old fashioned rule days, Reading and Writing and ‘Rithmetic, taught to the tune of a hick’ry stick … Today was the last day of school for this school year. Can you believe it? Two of my grandchildren graduated from Elementary School today so we grabbed our cameras and were off to see them do [...]
Chloe, age 10, is the first of the eight invited guests to arrive at Grandma Henke’s Slumber Party and she is enticed by the two unopened packages sitting on the kitchen table. These Play-Doh Movie Snacks and Fun Factory were sent to me by Sarah Reynolds who works for a public relations firm. (I couldn’t [...]
I took type in high school. I typed 65 words a minute on a manual typewriter with no errors. That was high enough to get me an “A” so it must have been a good speed. Right after I finished that class they quit teaching on manual typewriters and moved to the new electric [...]
I was honored to be highlighted today on Grandma’s Brief’s, an awesome blog by Lisa, a grandmother with a successful blog full of information to do with being grandparents. Actually, it is full of information for everyone and has links to just about anything you can imagine to do with a family. I love blogs [...]
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Technorati Tags: quality assurance,free advice,blogging communities,darling grandchildren,unwanted advice,grandparents who give advice Do you ever wonder how many of the people who hit on your blog actually take the time to read it? I mean besides the ones you hear from kind of regularly, and the family members and close friends. I don’t know if I [...]
Every day I lose more marbles. Some days I go from room to room looking for things, hoping that something will spark my memory so I will remember what it is I’m looking for. Some nights I struggle to remember all the interesting things I wanted to write in my journal. I know there were [...]
Grace: So, Grandma was Grandpa really a soldier? Grandma: Yes, he was a Captain in the Army. Grace: Did he actually have to fight in a war? Grandma: Yes, Grace, he actually had to go to war a long time ago Grace: Grandpa, that is sooo cool. Did you get to fight with George Washington?
I read an interview of Larry Smith by Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project and loved the questions so much I decided to use them to interview myself. I thought it would be a simple exercise and make a nice blog. I challenge you to ask yourself the same questions and blog about them. It [...]
The family room carpet looks awesome!!! Double digit, awe inspiring awesomely clean! I will have to take the samples back to the carpet place now and tell them I changed my mind. I just saved $1100.00 that we didn’t have. Oh the joy! AND … that isn’t all … !!! My favorite lazy-boy recliner is [...]
* Communication = more listen less talk. * I like quitting caffeine so much I go back on it just so I can go off again. * Don’t play Facebook during 24. * Judge not. (Oh, someone else already said that.) * Time flies whether you have fun or not. So enjoy it. * Jesus [...]
