Seems a lot of us liked our paper dolls. I remember when you could go to the five and dime (we had two, Danner's and Ben Franklin's) and buy a whole booklet for a dime. Of course, a dime was pretty hard to come by back in those days and when you were 7 or 8. We cut furniture out of old Sears and Penney's catalogs and make pretend rooms. I read a lot, too. Like YogaLady, we got library cards very young. The library had a summer reading club. If you read 10 books and gave an oral book report to the librarian you got to go on a picnic at the end of summer. I usually had read at least double that amount. We also played games. We played riddle-dee-dee, I see something you don't see. Then you would give a hint--like it begins with a "B". When we would go to Grandma J's, she'd play cards with us. Mainly "War" which can last forever--bless her heart. Summer was for bike riding--with some friends we used to ride 5 miles out into the country to my grandparents' farm. We'd go to the creek to cool off and explore the woods. This was in 7-8 grades. Winter was sledding and ice skating at Herkles pond. Usually a fire to warm us when needed and hot chocolate in thermos bottles. Gosh, sometimes it'd be fun to be young again.

Sitting in the warm sun on the beach of my favorite pond on Cape Cod Swimming in the warm water of my favorite pond on Cape Cod Bouncing my grandchildren on my knee. Since I don't have any, that is a pipe dream!

1.) Wish for more 2.) Drive around in it 3.) Watch it. It rarely happens here.

1.Made pumpkin bread to satisfy a craving 2.Didn't know what to make for dinner so I decided to make it a game. I had to make the first thing I pulled out of the freezer ( boneless pork chops) and make the first recipe in my book (of tried and true) that I found using pork -szechuan pork! 3. DD(19) wanted to come with me when I pick ed up DS(13) from school today. We got to wait in the car and chat-it was a nice day with even a breeze!