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"...(be) like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy,
absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. "
BRENDA UELAND
Dare I admit it, I almost wanted to go back to the store and get my own copy. For as I read, I felt the stirring of my happy girlhood memories. The joy of remembering those simple, innocent childhood pursuits. What I've discovered (maybe you have too), we are never too old to rekindle those pleasures... even if only for a few minutes before we put on our grown up faces again. Maybe that's why we have daughters, nieces, and granddaughters, so we can enjoy those nice girlhood memories all over again.
I STILL GET PLEASURE IN...
Playing with paper dolls
-- and creating a make belief world for them
Browsing through the children's section of a bookstore
Borrowing children's picture books from the library
-- and letting my imagination go with the flow
Sitting down with a new box of wax crayons
and a thick coloring book chock full of exciting choices --
(I mean, wasn't that half the fun, deciding what to color first?)
Swinging on an old-fashioned swing
Swinging on an old-fashioned swing
Where has your mind happily skipped off to in reading my list?
Playfully,
Brenda
Brenda
One of my best friends is a seven-year-old. She knows how to enjoy life: tea parties, searching for the Hidden Acre, riding a wagon to Laura's house, playing hide and seek, and eating dessert first! We all need a child to play with. I am going to have to find this magazine for her!
ReplyDeleteOh, my, don't get me started! Jacks, pick up sticks. But the paper dolls! Most of the ones nowadays are magnetic and wooden, nothing like the old ones. They came in folders and you could store the clothes in the pockets after you had cut them out. I would stand them all up around the floor and play endlessly. I had the paper dolls of Lucy and Desi and many others.
ReplyDeleteOh Brenda...I'm such a paperdoll lover. I just might have to run out and look at that magazine. Memories, oh the memories.
ReplyDeleteHi Brenda, i still remember the fun paper dolls I had many many years ago, Mine were cut outs from the Eatons catalog and then glued onto cardboard, and my mom made me a stand for them from 2 pieces of wood. How inventive was that !
ReplyDeletethinking of my grand daughters. I bet they would enjoy this magazine...
ReplyDeleteMy 2 daughters had those dolls and what fun we would have with them!
ReplyDeleteI loved to play "house." I just finished a post because I was reminded how much in our childhood still influences us today. You said it so much better. I have four granddaughters. The oldest loves AG dolls and I have had so much fun with her. Soon she will be 13 and so I know I have little time left to play with her. The 10 year old and six year old simply are not interested in any dolls. I am holding out hope that I will have one more opportunity with our little Allie who is soon to be six months old.
ReplyDeleteIn October we were raking piles of leaves and trying to build houses or forts that should have had a corner of the school yard fence to support the walls.
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed your memories, Brenda.