Saturday, April 26, 2014

Easter with Texas Cousins

 We had a great St. Louis-based Easter with Pork Steaks, gooey butter cake and Panera bread (St. Louis Bread Company).  We celebrated Easter with lots of games, a tea party, a birthday and Easter egg hunts.












Thursday, April 24, 2014

Easter with Warrens


 Holidays leave lots of posed photo opportunities.  We began the holiday with a surprise egg.  The weather was beautiful so the kids decided to "rest" outside.  Well, one had to stay in and wasn't really resting as you can see by the monitor.

The next day, Easter morning, we had a series of photos before the family came over.










Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Easter Cards

 Every now and then I like to send the grandchildren cards that I made despite not being very good at it.  I do have adequate craft supplies, a good sense of humor and not bad ideas, it's just the craftsmenship that is lacking.

I also like to make each family member a different card because I think a lot of the fun is sharing what each individual card says to parents and siblings.  For other cards I've made, click here.

The first are the cards for Anna, Eli and Sam (I did get some help on the jokes from the internet for these three)

Sam:  How do bunnies stay healthy?  They eggs-ercize

Eli:  Never tell an Easter egg a good joke! It may crack them up

Anna: Why was the Easter Bunny upset?  She was having a bad "hare" day (Anna has had a bad "hare" day this year when she cut her own hair).



 For Brett: Why did the egg like the baseball game?  It had egg-stra innings.  Here's some egg-stra money

For Davis: What do you call 5 male rabbits?  5 Bucks (not so much a joke as information---the joke is the money included)
 For Roman:  We hope this is Eggs-actly what you wanted.  (money included)

For Libby:  What does the Easter Bunny get for making a basket?  Two points like everyone else.

I hope they enjoy the cards but more importantly I hope they know that Grandma and Grandpa love them so much that Grandma even does crafts for them!

Between Two Worlds

Most of my life, I've considered it fortunate that I was just ahead of the Baby-boom. Generally, the Baby-boomers were born between 1946 and 1964 after the fathers returned from World War II. It was a huge population explosion that has reverberated through American society.

This blog will be part history, part memories, part reflections of a retired teacher, but active "Senior". I have always felt like I straddled two generations forming a bridge. Sometimes I think like a baby-boomer, but sometimes I'm locked into my parents' Depression era thinking. I'm a dichotomy of two eras. But, I'm always ready to try something new---so here I am dipping my toes in the water of Blogworld.