Month: March 2005

Everywhere my sisters, cousin and I went during our vacation together, we encountered other women with sister adventure stories. One woman said she and her sisters make funny hats to wear when they pose for pictures during their travels together. A pair of sisters at a garage sale excitedly told us about a quilt tour…

Six weeks of silly sentences from “Dr. Seuss’s ABC” supplied our children with more than an introduction to the alphabet. Instead of television and Sesame Street, we went down the street to the library and loaded up every week on books, “Mom the Magnificent Reading Machine” – preferred to have a fresh set of books…

Expecting child number five to join overflowing small house, the mother needed to convert her attic into a fourth bedroom – but it was three feet deep in boxes of out-grown clothes – opened and strewn from children searching for larger sizes. “I wish I could help, but the only free time I have is…

There is always room for one more at our house – even if we had to put a single bed and dresser in the laundry room to prove it. While some discuss the perfect family size and spacing, I have always contended that the perfect family size is one more than we already have. Our…

I was just an extra, a moving piece of scenery – in the “Rosa Parks: Quiet Strength” play presented at the South Arkansas Arts Center in February, but I repeatedly heard one after another of the experienced SAAC volunteers comment, “This cast is astounding.” I am not sure what that difference was, but perhaps ….…