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 [...]
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 [...]
I’m thinking warm and fuzzy thoughts of my mother tonight. I remember her rocking me and singing me my favorite songs until surely her throat was sore from the effort. I remember her putting pin curls in my hair at night so I would have pretty hair in the morning. I remember her making home [...]
Yesterday I was having a panic attack over getting a “metal” roof on our older home built in 1975. Probably 99.9 percent of our small city, has standard roofs made of clay tiles or old time shingles. The metal roofs that came to my mind were roofs in the form of wavy corrugated sheets of [...]
I was notified of the “All About Parenting Blog Carnival” and decided I’d like to participate by submitting a post I wrote in 2008. If you would like to enter your thoughts on motherhood for this blog carnival follow the link above. It will be fun to read all of the entries on motherhood at [...]
I’m sitting here in Lynn’s hospital room with my warm sweatshirt on thinking I should have brought ear muffs. This is night two after his 2nd total knee replacement. Lynn had a pretty high fever for a long time last night … I think they said 104 degrees once it was translated from 39.something into [...]
Princess Anna, who is 5, is helping Grandpa … who is trying to fix her DS. Anna talks non stop … doesn’t even pause to breathe! Anna: I’ll help you. I know how to do it. Can I help? What are you doing? Is that one mine? Do you know what you’re doing? I don’t [...]
Tonight, alone in the quiet dark, I watched the movie, Copying Beethoven. It brought me to tears more than once as I listened to his beautiful creations and thought how it must have been for him to have this gift from God in his head and because of his deafness never actually hear it through [...]
When we were raising our children, Ivins was considered very small town even though it was deemed a city. There was a lot of empty land around us that was full of volcanic rock, red dirt, desert brush and cottontail rabbits. At night you could hear the coyotes yipping and it wasn’t unusual to have [...]
