Archive for October, 2009

The Sunday Routine

The Sunday Routine The board game is at least fifty years old.  And each time I open it, I remember Grandma:  her cookies, her giggle when she won at cards, her screwdriver drinks, the Broncos, and Scrabble. My grandmother Mildred was a fixture at our house every Sunday when I was growing up.  After church, [...]

Little Girl Giggles

My oldest daughter is working on a Barbie project in her sophomore year of college. She has to make Barbie more realistic.  In an effort to help her, I went looking for old doll clothes that might fit a re-sized Barbie.  When I opened boxes and baskets of doll clothes, voices of little girls filled [...]

Cleaning the Bookshelves…Cleaning my Soul

It seems hard to believe that as much as I love books, and enjoy having them throughout my house, my husband loves them more than me. This can be difficult at times, because there is rarely a book that is deemed unworthy of sitting on our bookshelves. I can pick out twenty in a heartbeat, [...]