My7BeautifulChildren: April 2009

I wrote this letter to the other grandkids in the family when the new baby was born so they could recognize their importance and receive validation in all the confusion of the birth of a new baby (see Lickin' and Groomin')

Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:09:08 -0600
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Subject: Dear GRANDKIDS

I just wanted to tell you what I have been doing today besides working in the yard and posting on my blogs. Get your mom to show you "My 7 beautiful children" by the way. But that's not why I am writing.
I was up this morning at 4:00 a.m cleaning and gardening, some call it "nesting" the way I was the night your mother was born.

I found those crazy checker/chess boards that folded into four squares and would never stay flat when we tried to play on them and about four o'clock this morning I flattened them out and varnished them to the little yellow and blue plastic tables with the holes in them for legos, that don't fit the ones we have.

Then I took the little chess pieces and weighted them with plaster that the carpenter was using on our room. This was about the time you left for school.

I put an old screw and plaster in the hollow part so they are a little heavier and stand up better. Do you remember how they always fell down when we tried to get them to stand up?

I have about three partial sets.(that means the pieces are not all there because I stepped on some of them). So I think I'll buy a couple more sets at dollar store and do the same thing with the pieces so we can have a Chess or Checker Tournament in the back yard.

I put more crafts things out on the shelves from down stairs. Boy, I really did not know we had so much fun stuff to do crafts with. I can't wait until you come to do some.

I've been lashing the fence posts up. That means, I have been tying string around the fence posts and uprights where they come together. The places GrandPa was cutting notches so they fit better, I tied string around them so they stay without falling over. The leaves and flowers are really growing.
I think that is so funny. I put the pictures of them on the blog and called it, "My fence is blossoming!" I showed you some of the photos.

Sorry this is such a long letter. I hope you can come over again really soon.
Love you, Grandma.