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        Grandma duty this week yippee!! We made freezer jam with fresh raspberries from the local you pick.  The berries were few and far be...

  Fun weekend with the little girls as always low tech.  My watercolor pencils got sharpened…..while they were painting, cutting or gluing I...

Fun weekend with the little girls however they tell me they are big girls!!  Always low tech with grandma baking cookies, drawing, painting,...

Sometimes nap time just doesn’t happen when you tell them to go lay down. Sometimes a stack of books is much more effective especially when ...

  It was a very low tech weekend— Grandma wouldn’t turn on the tv and find any kids shows!!  Instead it was sugar stamp cookies, paper dolls...

That’s as good as it gets for them posing together.  Now we just need October weather to arrive so they can wear their new sweaters. Miss M ...

  I’m working on sweaters for the little girls. The yarn did not come from Ireland, I love knitting wool but this Berroco Remix Light is mor...

 It’s been a no sew summer for me at least since I finished quilting the last baby quilts. I need to stay home for a couple weeks to start a...

  A few decades ago back when I was doing calligraphy and my children were babies I wrote their names in all their books that were gifts, th...

  I made a couple minki blankets for the little grands because when the try to take a nap at grandma’s house….the bed isn’t right and the pi...

 The little girls opened the bag together that hid their Dollie’s for Christmas. They peeked in and both said their own name when they saw t...