Thanks! This photo is about a year old, right when we got her.jdarg said:She is beautiful-. My kinda dog.
Hey, jdarg, do you read Anne Lamott? Any other fans out there?
Best book you've read this year
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Hey, jdarg, do you read Anne Lamott? Any other fans out there?
peapod1980 said:
This has given me another idea (stop groaning!) Kurt/SJ please help! We need a dogs of SoWal.com like the Dogs of Grayton Beach! Can you have a page where we (how I will, I don't know!) can post our dogs pics and names? That would be doggone awesome!
One of the deans (Linda) at the college where I teach has no family in town and has gotten close to an elderly woman who was the wife of a dean who is now deceased. This woman is from an old family in town, and she has a lot of stories. Linda visits her regularly and spends about an hour a week recording stories. She plans to write a book, not for financial gain, but just to record the interesting history of this family and how it relates to the town. Once this woman dies, that would have been lost forever, if not for Linda.Sueshore said:
We all need to sit down with our elderly parents and journal for them. Like SS says, there are things you think you'll never forget that, unfortunately, you do. Then the stories are gone forever. Do you know your parent's favorite hymns and songs? Or foods? Or life experiences? Or best Christmases? I don't, unfortunately, even though I talk to my Mom every day. Heck, I'm not sure I know this about my own husband and daughter!
Time to write a book.
BR...what a lovely thing your friend is doing. And so many will derive joy from this labor of love! You bring up interesting questions here...Just how much DO we know about the ones we love? This might just add to everyone's Thanksgiving blessings this year.
If your parents don't like to write maybe you could record their stories with a voice recorder and you could write it later. Many MP3 players come with one. I used to write funny things down in the kids baby books. Like when my daughter ran into the living room yelling..the pot is bleeding ....the pot is bleeding!! I rushed into the kitchen and water was boiling over. LOL I think she was 3 or 4. One of the funniest things Dylan said was about a year ago. He was in the bathroom and he ran out of toilet paper. He yelled out for someone to get him some. My husband said.."there's tp on the back of the toilet..can't you see it?" Dylan said..."I don't know....I'm not an owl!"
I told you he was a little different. Makes us laugh though.
I told you he was a little different. Makes us laugh though.
That's cute - the kind of stories that unfortunately you forget once they get into the whirlwind of high school and college applications.
OL...I LOVE the things that kids say!!! When I was having MS, my parents took FS (2 1/2 yo) home with them to Houston. After a couple of days, my precious daughter says to my mom..."Mimi, where's my OTHER mother?" Still makes me grin real big! Many times when MS was small, HMM would ask him to do "big guy" stuff...after a while, MS says to HMM..."I can't do that, I'm JUST a BOY!" I still say that to him to this day!!!
Awwwww!
Sueshore said:
Cute! Mine are 2 1/2 years apart too. Another cute story from my daughter...when she was 4 she had a pet gold fish that died. She decided to have a funeral for "Goldie" and placed him in a film canister. I was busy doing something in the kitchen and she ran in with a rock in her hand. She asked ...where's a marker? I need to write rip on this rock. I was like, huh? ? She repeated herself a few times and explained she was burying Goldie in the flower bed out front and she needed this rock to mark the spot. then I finally figured it out. She needed to write rest in peace on the rock for a little tombstone. I'm sure she must have seen it on cartoons and had no idea what it even meant. The whole thing just cracked me up.
Copy and paste these stories into a journal in Microsoft Word (or the software of your choice) right now! It will be a beautiful gift for your family.