delight

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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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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Invisible on a foggy morning.

May 7, 2009

Let’s clear the air right up front – I love rain and I love fog. There, I said it. This morning’s fog left only feet of visible space around our home. As it lifted it settled a hundred feet back from the house but was just as dense. It was one of those morning I walked [...]

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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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Citrus, floral, pepper or chocolate?

April 7, 2009

The sleet is tap, tap, tapping at the windows. In northeast Ohio a spring snowstorm carries lots of moisture – all from an unfrozen Lake Erie. Rain, sleet, snow … and what’s with the nonstop blasting horizontal wind? And the earthworms all over the driveway – where did they go or are they curled up [...]

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