Is it enough popcorn for her??

To be honest about it, Sarah said she did not enjoy it half as much as what we had here that night last week...we are still laughing about that.

We also have more tales to tell. Sarah made her crib into a little bed with the half side rail a couple days ago. She spent the first night in it, and the next morn, she got up and did not cry for her mom. Sarah heard her open the door... Lorelei came down the hall and there is a corner there and you either go into their bedroom or on down the hallway a bit and into the living room, etc.

Lorelei got to that corner and slapped the wall hard with her hand twice and yelled, "STOP!!!! STOP SWEEPing!" (sleeping) We think she wanted the whole world awake.

Well, we went over yesterday to help a little with a plumbing problem...well, Roger to help and me along for the ride. So, she does go to bed in her bed, and she woke up crying this morn about 5:00 a.m....I forget what all she ask her mom for...she went through a whole list of stuff, but Sarah convinced her to go back to sleep.

Then, when I woke up, I could hear her chattering away...I thought she was up with her mom in the living room already...soon as I stepped out in the hall she stopped so I didn't realize she was in her bedroom still. I thought maybe Sarah had taken her to their bed. Being that I was up, decided to do my exercises....

About that time, I hear Sarah get her....she said Lorelei was just sitting on the edge of her bed kicking her feet saying "mommy, mommy, mommy" over and over, and when she walked in, Lorelei quick covered her own eyes with her hands, and said "Surprise!" That kid has way too much fun....

Bridgeton Covered Bridge....

This poor bridge has seen more than its fair share of troubles...it was burned down in April of 2005.....and the whole thing rebuilt by a community of volunteers by October of 2006. You can read about it here....
A couple of weeks ago, give or take a day or two or three, we had some real storms and some tornadoes go through. Guess what...one hit the bridge...it took out some of the sides on both sides. We had heard about it but not had the chance to go by till day before yesterday....
The old mill also had the roof taken off and had some water damage to things inside...as you can see they were getting ready to re-roof the day we were there.
It was officially classified as a tornado that hit there....thank God it was not wide spread. There were places were there were lots and lots of trees down...I cannot imagine seeing acre after acre of stuff just destroyed as those in Joplin, Missouri.

Memories.....

Clara of Clara's Corner has suggested for us all to share a childhood memory on Mondays...I plan to participate when I think of it and can pick a memory I want to share.

I think I have shared this before...but some may not have read it so bear with the part that is a repeat. The above is the Arthur Elementary School I attended for eight years....it had four rooms plus the entryway. There were four teachers, each one teaching two grades. Each of the four rooms had a stove in it...not a pretty coal burning stove, but just one of the plainer ones. I think starting in the 3rd grade, the teachers would pick a couple students to go bring in a bucket of coal...everyone volunteered. Maybe they did it in 1st and 2nd grade, but if they did I don't remember it.

Notice all the windows....again I don't think we did it in first and second grades, but from about 3rd grade on up, the kids washed the windows. At least the bottom three rows of window panes...maybe we did the fourth, but I for sure don't think we went any higher. I only remember girls being chosen to do that job...but again all of us volunteered. The teacher would choose two of us...one for the inside and one for the outside.

And then there was the chalk boards...again students took care of them. And we loved going outside to clean the erasers. There was a pump house that was tacked on to the actual school, and we would beat the erasers on the walls of it...sometimes we would stand back and throw them at it. Again, the teacher chose two....again everyone volunteered.

And then there was the outhouses...all the students volunteered to clean them also! All we had was cold water and a broom...and I suppose soap cause seems like I remember carrying buckets of water to rinse after we had scrubbed the outhouse. Again two kids were the lucky ones chosen for the job.

I don't know if the teachers chose two because they knew we would enjoy doing the jobs more that way and volunteer more readily, or if they thought the jobs actually needed two people...and with all these jobs, remember the class size...there was 5-6 girls in my class most of those years, and not many in the class above or below our grade either. And there were even fewer boys in our class.

But all this is not really the memory I was planning to share. The memory is about library books. We didn't really have a library in the school...I know in the 5th and 6th grade room, there were a couple shelves with old, old books on them. I don't even remember looking at them. I have no idea if there was anything worth reading or not.

I don't remember if I was in 3rd or 4th or 5th grade, maybe even 6th grade when a car started coming and bringing children's books to school. I think they were brought from another school, but I am not sure. The hallway or entry way had a long bench in it and they would spread the books out there...you just cannot imagine the thrill of getting to go pick out books with shiny dust covers....it was a wonderful thing for us when they started doing that.