Rituals
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Grandparents and Kellogg’s Corn Flakes
Your two granddaughters come to visit while their mother copes with a new baby. Every morning, you pour mountainous bowls of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes for each one before they come downstairs. You set out spoons and the yellow milk pitcher. You have firm ideas about the propriety of leaving the cereal box on the table, so you put it back in Continue reading
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Peepers Herald Spring
Robert Frost described these tiny frogs’ sound as sleigh bells (Hyla Brook, c.1920). I call it my soundtrack of spring. Credit: Stan Lake, 2014, CatchingCreation.com Continue reading
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Family, TV and Ice Pops
If you have children of any age, you know what fussy time is. It’s that difficult time between school or daycare and home, right before supper. Everyone’s on edge, exhausted, hungry, irritable, and whiny. Sound familiar? Not to mention that you’ve had a long and stressful day at work, after which you tore around town, carting kids from Continue reading
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Family Rituals and Bobby Shafto
Does your family love to dance? Play soccer together? Deep-fry turkeys on special occasions? All are rituals that enrich family lives. Mine was a family that loved to sing. When we were children, my grandmother accompanied us on the piano as she taught us folk songs and nursery rhymes. My sisters and I sang Bobby Shafto Continue reading
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