Puppet Show
Trying to keep from going crazy while quarantined during the ‘2020 COVID 19 pandemic’ was a full-time job. During the second week of quarantine, I was getting bored. My husband…
Stinky Eggs
When my grandsons were young, we flew out to Tennessee to visit them for Easter. We had a limited amount of time with the kids, so it seemed that we…
Do as I say… not as I do.
I decided to buy something fun for the boys to play with at our house. I found some ‘crazy carts’ online and talked my husband into buying these carts made…
Gone Fishin’
Thanksgiving one year my younger sister, three of my cousins, and I headed out on an adventure. We were a bit bored while hanging out at my Aunt and Uncle’s…
The Principal’s office
When our son was just starting kindergarten, I received a call from our son’s school, requesting our son and I come to the principal’s office the following morning. This was…
Heads Flew
It’s funny, when we moved to a lake on the East Coast, in so many ways, we had no idea WHAT we were getting ourselves into. Escrow closed, and we…
Tiny Dancers
One of the cutest things at a dance recital is the ‘littles’ doing their routine. Our ‘grandbeauties’, three and five years old, have been taking dance classes. The younger granddaughter…
Lost At Sea?
When we lived in California, one of our favorite things to do was to rent a houseboat and spend a week on the lake. Several times we went to a…
A “Little Bike Accident”
We spent an Easter in Tennessee with my daughter, son-in-law, and two grandsons when the boys were quite young. The spring weather was amazing, and we spent most of our…
Manna From Above
When my kids were three and five, I enrolled them in a gymnastics class, hoping this would help my son learn to tuck and roll as he did his ‘daredevil’…