Nurture

Toddler toys to delight grandma.

May 12, 2009

When our granddaughter was born I started to buy a few toys, books, some stuffed animals and the perfect baby doll. I soon realized that the little one needed none of these things. She is happiest playing with her people, petting the dogs or just walking around the yard. Still, being a new grandmother is [...]

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What is your mom moment?

May 9, 2009

Pepper Nuts Last year I was riffling through my cupboards looking for my mom’s pepper nut cookie recipe. You know the ones … you make a month before the holidays and glaze (no one could glaze like my mom) so they look like translucent snow on a very cold moonlit night. Hmmm. Not here. Not [...]

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Books to delight a toddler.

May 7, 2009

Whenever my 18 month old grandchild leaves I walk around the house and pick up the few items that need to go back into her room (or at least the room with three small canvas bins just for her). Always, I am picking up a book or two. As soon as she arrives she dashes [...]

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True confessions.

April 16, 2009

We are going on vacation. You might say, so what? Well, this is my husband’s and my first real vacation, the kind where you stay in one spot and can walk or ride your bike to wherever you want to go. We are going to an island off the shore of South Carolina so the [...]

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The week of the beast

April 10, 2009

  The Beast by Theodore Roethke I came to a great door, Its lintel overhung With burr, bramble, and thorn; And when it swung, I saw A meadow, lush and green.  And there a great beast played, A sportive, aimless one, A shred of bone its horn, And colloped round with fern. It looked at [...]

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