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The White Sisters (Follow-up Post)
Do you remember back in January when I posted about my sisters and my aunt and I pretending to be The White Sisters? (Click here to read it, if you missed it.) It was a fun memory… and brought a lot of chuckles as we talked it over again. In our little-girl minds The White Sisters were big celebrities, so…
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A Tray of Cookies
Here’s the tray of cookies and candy the girls and I made to serve at Bible study on Wednesday night. We don’t usually make a huge to-do over holidays… for example I don’t seem to take the time to put up special decorations or host parties… but we do enjoy making special treats for special occasions, just for a little…
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Cornbread
I love cornbread! And I always want the corner piece with the crusty edges… so when I saw this cornbread skillet at Cabella’s last fall I “hinted” to my husband that I would like it. Bless his heart, the man remembered, and got it for me for my birthday a couple of months ago. I’ve been making cornbread at least…
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The White Sisters
I’ve been having so much fun helping Rachel get her blog up and running the past few weeks. For those of you who missed it, she is my aunt… but she’s only a few months older than I am… so we grew up “together”. Yesterday when we were visiting on the phone we were laughing about some of the silly…
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Meet Sits!
This is Sits! He’s a funny looking little character, isn’t he? But he’s very precious to me. The facts are these. Once upon a time, when I was a new bride setting up my first home I came across this goofy little piece of porcelain among my husband’s things. “What’s this?” I wondered. “Oh. That’s Sits,” my husband told me…
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Beulah’s Sugar Cookies
This is a family favorite going back to my childhood. My mother got the recipe from my aunt’s mother-in-law, Beulah, and she made them often when I was growing up. It makes a huge batch. If you don’t want to bake it all at once, you can form the dough into logs to freeze. Then when you’re ready to bake,…
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Children’s Lit
I love children’s literature! Lately I’ve been re-reading some of the books I enjoyed as a child. I don’t know if it’s the nostalgia factor or if books written back then just really were better than most of the newer stuff. Actually, a lot of the stuff I read when I was growing up (in the ’70s) was written in…
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Old Readers
I’m getting school figured out for the coming year. I plan to start school the day after Labor Day. Just too much going on this month to start any sooner. We will be continuing where we left off with Sonlight Core 6 (World History, part 1) in the spring. I am hoping to finish by Christmas and start Core 7…
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Juvenile Series Books
As I mentioned below in my post about Cherry Ames, I was an avid reader as a child. Some of my favorites were the popular mystery series such as Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, and the Bobbsey Twins. I didn’t learn until I became an adult that all of these books (and many more) were published by the “Stratemeyer Syndicate,” a…
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Cherry Ames
I recently picked up an old Cherry Ames book at a thrift store or a library sale or somewhere. (I’m a major book hound!) My sisters and I read all the Cherry Ames books growing up. I just loved them! Cherry made nursing seem SO glamorous! I was convinced I wanted to be a nurse till the summer after high…
