Waiting for the tide
As the sun set, she carefully positioned the Little Plastic Bears on the ship’s deck. The HMS Endeavour, a British Royal Navy research vessel from the 1700′s was the perfect vessel for The Bear’s...
View ArticleThree Weeks post-op Scoliosis Surgery
Also subtitled – How I swallowed an Eiffel Tower. Today marks 3 weeks since my Scoliosis Surgery on October 2nd. It has taken every minute of those three weeks to get to this point where I can sit at...
View ArticleMy letter to Santa – 1975
I think I was about 15 years old. I just found the list today, tucked in a stack of old correspondence my mom gave back to me years ago. My letter to Santa, 1975. Oh dear, I was so demanding back then!...
View ArticleMy Grandson turned two!
I’m not quite mobile yet so my 19 year old son made the awesome birthday cake and my oldest son, Everett’s dad, took photos. We used our own recipes for the Vanilla and Devil’s Food Cake layers but...
View ArticleEnjoying the Oven Fireplace
We never got around to getting the chimney swept this year. Plus, the wood stove is in the basement. Not to miss out on the fireplace experience this cold icy night, we made it happen. As the water...
View ArticleTwo of my loves
Pineapple and Son #5. Pineapple and #5 Son. We named the cat Pineapple because her mother was Matey and Matey’s mother was Pirate.
View ArticleCrafting with Grandma
We’ve been a busy lot. I planned on making individual posts to share our crafting fun but I can’t keep up with such a flurry of crafting events! So here are some fun times with my granddchildren....
View ArticleThe 1968 Easter Egg Tree
My mom was going to throw out the decorated Easter Eggs she made in 1968. They were dusty, damaged and bug-eaten. Then she considered giving them to someone to salvage any useable trims. Of course I...
View ArticleSpinning Tales
My daughter-in-law entered a drawing and won several amazing items from Spinning Tales, a company that makes the most charming spinning dresses ever. Here is a photo of my granddaughter spinning in...
View ArticleBarbie, Chelsea and Ken play Triopoly
The conversation during the invisible game went like this… “Let’s play Triopoly, Barbie! Ok, Chelsea. You take your turn first. Thank you. Here, Barbie, have some money. You can have lots of money!...
View ArticleSpinning
5th Birthdays are always a Perfect Day for spinning, especially when you have a spinning dress from Spinning Tales. My granddaughter spins in her spinning dress on her 5th birthday.
View ArticleEndeavor
That’s the name of a British research vessel, built in 1764. The HMS Endeavour explored uncharted oceans in the South Pacific. The Little Plastic Bears long for the sea in the Endeavor. But the tide...
View ArticleMy Granddaughter’s little bouquet
A couple days ago, my five year old granddaughter and I made a little bouquet. I have very few flowers this year so we used every bloom we could find around the yard – basil, mint, honeysuckle, tall...
View ArticleThere, in the woods, a flower fairy!
In her little black boots, she stepped lightly between the trees. I observed her world, being ever so careful not to disturb the magic. She had the dress but needed something for her hair. So I made...
View ArticleI hung my old chalkboard in the dining room
The easel is long gone and the drawing scroll must be somewhere in the attic. But I still have the slate chalkboard from my childhood. I’ve been wanting to put it on the wall for many years. Now that...
View ArticleSleepover at Grandma’s House
And of course we did crafts! First we played with paper dolls. She picked which outfits I should cut out. Little Miss Christmas and Holly Belle, a reprint of a favorite paper doll I had as a child....
View ArticleHappy New Year 2014!
We got THE coolest package from Japan from our daughter yesterday. She and her husband sent us a whole box of crazy cool treats! We’re going to try them tonight. We’re a fairly adventurous family but...
View ArticleHe learned how to play the vuvuzela!
It was a memorable New Year, 2014 was. My grandson blasts the vuvuzela for the first time. Happy New Year!
View ArticleJust one match
I rarely get the pleasure of a campfire, only once every two or three years. So they are very memorable when they occur. This was our first night camping at Rocky Mountain National Park. When we went...
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