And is just miserable, and I’ve probably only met my grandma seven, eight, 10 times.Joe: So it really, these intensive kinship structures really bring the grandparents in, gives them high status, they’re often the purveyors of wisdom. The cousin marriage that you’re talking about, in...
Or wool socks grandma made? You should mend those. Don’t know how? I do. Bring me your socks and I will extend their life. My friend Suzanne (see her blog “Womangue” posted on the side bar to the right…scroll up a bit) did the art work for the Darn It! poster. I just ...
Or wool socks grandma made? You should mend those. Don’t know how? I do. Bring me your socks and I will extend their life. My friend Suzanne (see her blog “Womangue” posted on the side bar to the right…scroll up a bit) did the art work for the Darn It! poster. I just ...
In many cases, however, Amish children will have little command of the language before entering grade school. Parents or siblings will translate from English to Pennsylvania Dutch for the youngest ones. Since nearly all books are in English, Amish parents will translate to “Dutch” while reading...
finally return home. Things have changed; day-to-day life is different, and your friends are different — some of them have moved on to a new life without you. You feel like you have to live through that emotional process all over again. You begin to think, “where do I even belong...
“probably” because anything can happen,butteens seem to be a lot LESS curious about the world around them than small children are,and will probably not even notice an occasional odd face. (And if you have your child in the same school from preschool through high school, as we do, then...
I am often alone on the holidays and my birthday. I am free to do whatever I want on the holidays and my birthday. My name will not disappear as I become Mom or Grandma. I will be Sue forever. Sometimes Aunt Sue, which I treasure more than I can express. ...
Kids hear:“Everybody keep doing what you’re doing for eight minutes until I repeat myself. Wait three more minutes. When you can tell I’m about to lose my religion, stop what you’re doing, but slowly. Stand up. Pause. Stretch. Then join your siblings in thundering down the hallwa...
Though she doesn’t have kids of her own, Dolly has remained close to her siblings’ children; they call her “aunt grandma.” She thinks it was meant to be this way. “I think it probably was [God’s] plan for me not to have kids so everybody's kids could be mine,” she’s...
But I slightly digress, as I want to talk about Grandma, this looming yet benevolent presence in my childhood, urging me to eat her delicious meals, playing the mandolin and singing the Adam’s Family theme tune to her miniature chihuahua, Sheena (who took it like a champ, shaking itself...