Saturday, February 14, 2015

Making Valentines

 We have a bit of family history making cards----many of our grandchildren make their own Valentines.  We were with some as they were brainstorming ideas.  Davis wanted baseball, Brett snakes but Libby was having a hard time so was looking at Pinterest ideas.




I knew I needed to kick it up a notch for the grandkids after I got home. I like for the cards to be different, personalized, but I wasn't feeling great.  So, they all had the same sentiment on the front (although decorated differently):  "Roses are red, Violets are blue" (all deliberately fancy and schmaltzy)
 Eli's ended with "Legos and Minecraft get built, By someone like you."  Anna's "Odd Squad or Frozen, We love you."
 Sam's: "Bugs like dirt and mud, And so do you"  Silas's:  "Ants are little and so are you."
 Libby:  "Selena doesn't need Bieber, And neither do you."  Davis:  "Hazel likes to toot, and so do you"
 Roman: "Frogs like water, and so do you." Brett:  "Turtles are silly, And so are you."
Not a lot of creativity here, but the sentiment is "Grandpa and Grandma love you!"

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.