I love to remember the quiet summer days of my childhood. I didn't know any children whose summers were filled with one camp and activity after another. My main activities weren't really activities at all, unless you call sitting in the clover making clover chain necklaces and searching for ... View Post
Capturing the Moment
I recently wrote about the lyrics that popped into Ray's head while he was out in the cold finishing up his to-do list. He was glad this his chores would "soon be o'er." We had a pretty little snow on Saturday morning. I hurried outside to gather snow for snow cream and put it in the freezer for ... View Post
The Joy of Preparations Fulfilled
One childhood remembrance is that my Mama Sue (Daddy's mother) wore herself out before Christmas. She bought presents for all the children and grandchildren. She baked jam cake with cooked caramel icing and coconut cake with cooked divinity frosting. If you have ever cracked open a fresh coconut ... View Post
This Morning We Got Up . . . And Now It’s Time to Go to Bed
When our children were small, I often sang to them before they went to bed. Along with classic children’s songs were two that changed from day to day. One of these I learned when I first started going to the church nursery with our oldest child John when he was very tiny. You simply sing, “God ... View Post
Ten Days of Blessings — Blessing 8: Read aloud today.
Children are never too old to listen to a parent read aloud. It's been more than twenty years since I read Honey for a Child's Heart, first published in 1969 and now in its fourth edition. That book made multi-generational changes in our family's life. The lessons I took away ... View Post
Ten Days of Blessings — Blessing 7: Time to play.
Children learn in many ways -- by listening, by reading, by seeing, and by playing. Today my brother and I might feel a bit silly playing army with him as the soldier and me as the nurse. People might think we were a bit strange if we stood in front of our parents' dresser, doing ... View Post
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