It was a Christmas gift from us to two of our granddaughters.
It was something my daughter-in-love suggested when I asked her for ideas.
It would be a gift for both of the girls.
Their baby sister is too young right now, but will enjoy it when she gets older.

It is something called, YOTO.
YOTO is a small cube in which cards are inserted.
The cards play audiobooks and music.
Two cards were purchased as well.

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Two of my granddaughters are here.
Their mommy and daddy attended a wedding this past weekend.
We have the joy and the privilege of having them with us.
I made sure all their favorite things were ready for them.

We met our son at a halfway point.
The girls were squealing and waving furiously as we pulled up next to their mini van.
The door opened and they ran out to give us big hugs, as they call them.
Big hugs, from the younger one, envelop our knees and from the older one, encircle our legs.

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It was the annual Grandparent’s Day at our granddaughters’ school.
We have had the pleasure of going in previous years with our oldest granddaughter.
This year, we had two classrooms to visit.
Our granddaughters are blessed to have both sets of grandparents nearby.

Consequently, neither granddaughter was without a set of grandparents in her classroom.
We split the time in half and visited one classroom and then switched to the other.
My husband and I were to drive both girls home.
The other grandparents stopped to get pizza for all of us to have at lunch.

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I was thinking about two of my old pencil cases.
How I wish I had saved them.
Something wonderful in first grade may not be so wonderful in the older grades.
I wish I had those pencil cases now for nostalgia’s sake.

My grandchildren would love them.

I was thinking about my first pencil case.
It actually looked like a pencil.
It was soft and had a zipper right below where the eraser was supposed to be.
Upon unzipping the eraser area, I could drop pencils down into the point of the case.

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I have an Audible account and absolutely love it.
I am a voracious reader.
I used to love to read aloud to my children and now to my grandchildren.
Being read to, as I listen to a book on Audible, is just so wonderful.

I have listened to Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit as well.
I have listened to all the James Herriot books.
I have listened to classics like Jane Eyre and most of the Jane Austen books.
However, my favorites were book by Lucy Maud Montgomery, who wrote Anne of Green Gables.

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There are many bookcases in my house.
The living room alone has four large bookcases and one small one, which are filled with books.
The books used to go in the same direction with their spines nice and straight.
Now some books are placed horizontally on top of the vertical ones.

I never thought I would have books going in different directions on my bookshelves.
Not because I want them all nice and neat, exactly.
I just never imagined I would have so many books that they demanded to go every which way.
To a reader like me, that is a good problem to have.

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I planned Grandma days with my three oldest three granddaughters.
It was my oldest granddaughter’s turn.
She decided to go to our favorite spot for hot chocolate and a doughnut.
I had two other places in mind for us to go.

We were listening to the Beauty and the Beast soundtrack, at her request.
She wanted to hear the narration again, which explains the fairy tale.
She wanted to talk about it, so I turned off the music.
She had questions about the need for the beast to be loved and to love in return.

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I met her for breakfast at a neighborhood coffee shop.
She and I have been in Bible study together for over ten years.
I tower over her about an entire foot.
What she doesn’t have in stature, she has in heart.

Our breakfast was three hours long.
Not the eating part, rather the talking part.
I even splurged and got some delicious hot chocolate.
An extra shot of mocha? The barista asked me.

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I’m running out of room.
It’s not that our house isn’t large enough.
We have plenty of room for our family.
My books are causing the problem.

Currently, we have nine large bookcases in our house.
The four bookcases downstairs are the ones I use the most.
They are overflowing.
I don’t know what to do about it.

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I decorated the house for fall.
My husband brought two bins up from the basement.
Wooden pumpkins, shaker boxes, and fall signs were put in their places.
Summer things were put away; winter things are around the corner.

Two of my granddaughters stayed overnight on the weekend.
My oldest granddaughter counted the number of pumpkins she saw on my Hoosier cabinet.
One, two, three, four, five, she counted until she gleefully said, twenty!
There are really only five pumpkins there, but to her it seemed like a lot.

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