Hi everybody, Wow have I been missing things! Sounds like good news there for Bunny and Veeja's Grandbaby( great) it a cutie. Earthly, and Mellen and Sue K and Jeanne and Raggedy and Oh Mercy I'm sure I'm forgetting some of you, Anita.... SO GREAT to see you back active. You have been in my thoughts over the past few months. Really wish I could get back into trading because that is even more fun than gardening but..... I am limited to what will survive life on the road. My picnic table is half full of plants and I know I can't take them all with me so I am going to tuck few herbs into a corner by the laundry room here. I'll leave a sign telling folks to take some and enjoy them. Hope they survive the summer OK I have fallen in love with deep East Texas. It is more pines than Palms so does not feel tropical but is so mild that the Amarillis are growing in yards in clumps of 12 or 15 flower stalks. What a beautiful sight. The people are friendly too and I look foreward to getting back here again. Wednesday, I'll head for Oklahoma to see parts of the historic RT 66 and visit museums about that. Then on to New Mexico. So much to see there too. I'll be working for the summer right by Mesa Verda in Colorado. Plan to spend my free time visiting/studying the history of the Four Corners area. With the price of Gas continuing to go up I'll have to plan my trips carefully but I'm thinking if I don't see it now.... then when will it ever be any cheaper???? Carol, I have told many people about the book "The Long Emergency". He was so "right on" I hate to thing about next year oe five years from now. Hugs to all, Miss you. BB

Yes and I just saw it the other day darn it but where and was I on the desktop or laptop to go back in my history. Well hopefully someone will know but I will search and check both computers. It's like pink, blue, yellow, purple blocks with the letters in the middle of each one right? Oh going to drive me nuts now thank you, he he. Mary

My GD loves her chalk too--I only buy the big ones because she breaks the small ones too quickly. She loves the bubbles and so do both of the dogs. Turns into a real noisy group with her jumping up and down, the big dog running through them and barking and the little one on the perimeter jumping to catch them! LOL She is really into doing puzzles, and loves to put her ABC letters in order with my help--she knows most all the letters, just mixes up a few of them. We repeat the alphabet over and over to get them right--and she always has to sing "now I know my ABC's, next time won't you sing with me?" everytime! Ha ha She is also really into singing little songs (sometimes at the top of her lungs) but she watched some Dora show where the gate mixed up the songs so now she wants to mix them all up like that too! What's a grandmother to do? Ha ha Her other big favorite is damp sand that she can spoon into her little cups and pack it down then dump it out to make "muffins". She will play with that for the longest time. I need to go buy some more sand--needless to say, the container is getting pretty low. She just got potty trained--and really gets tired of being asked if she needs to go potty. Almost gets mad at us if she feels we are bugging her too much. The other day she was riding in the car with her Mom and her mom thought she was chewing something. She asked her what was in her mouth, and GD replied "Nothing, Mommy, just my tiny teeth.". Too funny. ;o) Does your little one love to go to the park? GD even begs to go when she comes over here. She and her Mom go several times a week to meet the other mommies and their kids. Oh, and I almost forgot about the playdough--we roll it out and cut it with cookie cutters--she loves doing that too. I keep trying to come up with new things to entertain her with--she doesn't really care much for most of her toys--or at least not for very long. Got her a cute little bicycle from TS but she won't try to peddle it--just sits on it and rings the bell. Does your DD love to play games on the computer? GD really does. I am just amazed at how good she is with the mouse. We usually go to www.sesamestreet.com and click on the games. Her favorite right now is Snuffy. And Nickjr has allot of games like Dora, Angelina ballerina, the Backyardigans, Bob the Builder, and Piper. She likes the ones where she can click on a paint color and then color the picture best--but will play some of the other ones too. I used to sit her on my lap and play them with her, now she can do it all by herself--just calls me if she wants a different one. These kids just have no fear of computers! I've discovered that I am a real procrastinator about house cleaning. I do the main things, but put off things like cleaning my carpet or taking the fake plants outside to hose them off. Just so many more interesting things to do like read a book, watch tv, or "play" on here! LOL Better go before I write a book here. TTYL

Betsy, it is a fun project. The twins birthday is the 23rd and 2 days later is Christmas. And they have everything! So it makes it hard to come up with gifts. So 2 years ago I made photo books at Shutterfly.com after Steph told us about it. DS and DIL had a birthday party for the twins and lots of kids came. DIL told me that the books were the hit of the party. So I decided to do the ABC books this year for their BD. I was on dial-up when I did the first books, but now I have high-speed wireless. Sure make it faster! Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. Keep 'em coming!