Re: New SB3 Cover A is up! Yes which got the comment is always nice when the young'uns remember us "old" folk. She explained to my daughter who the picture of the "pretty lady" was in the first book though we of course got the question of why wasn't the pretty lady's hair as red as Cherri and was she friend of Cherri's too. My grandmother assured her that she was a freind who kept an eye out on her and her freind's adventures as well as her granddaughter who drew it.
She also came up with telling my daughter when she asked what was on Cherri's chin on my t-shirt that it was chocolate which is why Cherri and her freinds LOVE...and not blood. My daughter thinks they are messy and need a kleenex to fix that and offered to help show them how as she does with everyone else.
My grandmother is big on the younger generation remembering their grandparents as well as the great-grandparents. The whole remember where you came from even if your path leads you far away.
Re: New SB3 Cover A is up! I love my Mimi
when she passed over it was the year SB 1 came out
she's 16 in the picy
she gave it to me last time we saw each other
i think that's the way she wanted mr to remember her
Re: New SB3 Cover A is up! SharB- You sound like you have an awesome family!
All four of my grandparents died before I reached age 14, so my curiosity about their lives as adults was never fulfilled. I think your daughter and Holly are both very lucky to have had such bonding moments with their ancestors. Very neat improv on grandma's part with the blood, too. Yay for older generations!
--- "When I'm good, I'm good- when I'm bad, I'm better."
-Mae West
Re: New SB3 Cover A is up! It's sad that there is such a disconnect between Grandparents and Grandchildren. So many things about family history and traditions are lost because of it. Sometimes I think we'd have been much better off if the world had not grown technologically and stayed in the Old Times.
Re: New SB3 Cover A is up! Even aside from what technology has done to family relationships it's also wreaked havoc on the environment.
I'm a Navy brat and really don't know my grandparents well. I haven't seen my Dad's mom since I was about 6 after she and Grandpa got divorced. My gandfather is a chauvanistic religious conservative baptitst minister so I try to avoid him. With my Grandma on Mom's side the relationship is good but I don't see her often and my Grandpa was killed in an accident at work before I turned 2. Even my immediate family is not all that close we all live in different areas of the planet. My husband's family is a different story. Everyone is super close. His sister and her family live with Ma & Pa and we live 5 minutes away from them.
I think a lot of the disconnect has to do with distance in my case.
So many things about family history and traditions are lost because of it. Sometimes I think we'd have been much better off if the world had not grown technologically and stayed in the Old Times.