The Magic Grandmother

This book is written for women who want to be more than just a grandmother. But please understand one thing --- this is not about taking over --- or ‘trying’ to take over your grandchildren’s lives. It’s not about giving advice to their parents on child rearing. Or trying to tell everyone what is best for the child. Things like how much sleep a baby should get --- what foods are best --- what clothes are suitable --- which schools are good --- when they should date ---what college they should go to, etc, etc, etc are things that should be decided by your grandchildren’s parents --- not you.

This book is about trying to make the times you spend with your grandchildren ‘magic’. All the ideas in this book may not work for you. A lot depends on your personality --- mainly your ability to think like a child – to put yourself in their place and remember what used to bring the magic to your childhood. Also the ages and sex of your grandchildren will make a difference in what works and what doesn’t. But what the heck! Give it a try and you might make a few magic moments happen.

Titles

You Will Never Own a Horse

Little Girl Behind the Tree

My House

L.B. Lead the Life

The Story of Rainy Day Smith

Rag Muffin

313 Ferrell Place

Mese

All I Wanted Was to Dance

The Door

Notes

Grandmother – The Great Autumn Leaf Rake & Weiner Roast

Treasure Chest

Button Box

Charlie Brown Christmas Tree

Autumn Leaf Hunt

Indoor Picnic

Great Christmas Log Hunt

Christmas Shopping for Parents
Christmas Shopping for Poor Children

Books (personalized)

The Robber: A True Story

One day Sean & Gram stopped at the Eckard Drug Store. No one was sick. We didn’t need medicine. What we needed was a new toy for Sean and Eckard’s usually had a good supply of toys.

We walked in the store and started down the toy isle. We looked for a few minutes but Sean could not find the toy he wanted.

Suddenly we heard a woman yell, “Watch out Mom! What out! Don’t let him get away”!

Gram did not know what was happening so she grabbed Sean & pulled.

Pixadilly – Pixadillies Woodland Pixadillies

Autumn Enber loved to hear about how she had been born during the ‘ Celebration’ held every November by the Woodland Pixies.

“Oh, my yes” her Mother Ella would exclaim. “It was quite a day alright. PaPa ______ and I had danced all day on the big oak stump --- with a stop now & then to eat.


3 inches high
can fly
storm – horses mane
Christmas decorations
Dragonflies
Sailboat
Tree hollow & dog
Pixadilly Cowboy Same
Loggers
Hunters

MacDonalds

‘Donalds’
Old Mac Donalds
Had a fench fi

Want wide train? Gram
Want wide train? Bo
Want wide train? Mommy
Want wide train? Daddy
OK wide train!
Hotel – Car Window – Fench Fi & Coke please!

Kaden and the Really Tricky Number Problem

Title only ... story never written.

Unfinished Sean Story

“I Get You, Gram” – please pick me up

Long Rambling Song – Blow out candles

Play dough – cookie cutters – “There It Is”

Old McDonalds – “There It Is”

Bye, Aunt Be

“Were aah woo” – Where are you?

I’m Not Batman

The Thanksgiving Parade

The Horse Story

Hawk Name?
Storyteller from perch of large oak tree

Paige
Queen of stables. Small & beautiful. Arrogant & bossy.

Bakka
Show horse. Handsome – nicer than his dam Paige

Bo
The Stallion. Big & brave – watches over herd

313 Ferrell Place

313 Ferrell Place was just one of the unremarkable white two storied houses that lined each side of the steep narrow street. In ‘their day’ these houses had been homes of the ‘well to do’ of the small Texas town. Now, most of them had been turned into boarding houses for students attending the nearby business college. Some of them stood empty. In others, elderly widows held on to the last remnants of their past lives.

As you climbed the concrete stairs leading from the street you could see the porch swings on each end of the veranda that ran the complete width of the house. The windows had no shutters & the house was very much in need of a paint job but Mrs. Scott, who owned & ran the boarding house, was long past caring much about how the property looked. The entry way was a small dark area with doors on all four sides. Entering the front door, there was a parlor to the left, a bedroom (which was always locked) to the right and straight ahead was the large dining room. In the dining room were two long tables each able to seat 12 people and a sideboard along one of the walls, which were covered with a long faded floral wallpaper. In the middle of the ceiling hung an ugly light fixture that when turned on, threw weird shadows across the whole room, thus making it a most unappetizing room in which to eat.

A staircase leading to the second floor was built into one side of the dining room and a door at the back of the room opened into a small kitchen & washroom. The stairway went straight up twenty steps leading to a landing with 6 bedrooms and 1 large dorm-type bathroom built around it.