What a week…I narrowly survived the festivities! It’s been foggy…R got this amazing picture the other day…down by the river…
I got a tour of the new Children’s Room remodel at the Salem Public Library…
was on a panel for city club talking about interesting places in Salem, places of community…(with stellar panelists Sarah Evans, David Craig, Brian Hart and Carlee Wright)
I talked about artist Kristin Kuhns’ beautiful constructions she is making for the Children’s Room, and got to bring along a show and tell…
I was in attendance when artist Rex Amos brought things for the Pacific Northwest Artists’ Archive…including his hat collection…
we went to a surprise party for a lovely friend…waiting…
SURPRISE!!!
and last night we went “shopping in the basement”…uncovering a box of Zach’s old blocks and toys…we cleaned them up…
found an old wine box…
and packed them up…
we decorated the smallest tree we could find…
reminding ourselves of Christmases past…my kindergarten Santa…and my Mom’s delicate Santa…
our year in London…
and our first Christmas when we had NO money, so made ornaments for our tree out of cornstarch and painted them. The only cookie cutter we had was for bridge club sandwiches…hearts-clubs-diamonds-spades…
life is sweet. Sidney is coming for Christmas!!
On The Way 
Hi Bonnie,
Think of you often and your many interests and activities. I am so sorry to miss your talk on Friday. I was looking forward to it all week. Driving along to an appt. at 2: 30 pm Friday, I had a terrible feeling that I TOTALLY forgot City Club! How could I do that! I checked my schedule at eight that morning and city club just went poof. It looked like the speakers all had fun! Martha Sent from my iPad
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Ah Bonnie…..this post is so touching. Love your tree with all the precious memories. And Sidney for Christmas!!! Life is indeed sweet!
I love that you’ve kept the cornstarch ornaments and display them ❤ Those are some pretty great blocks too. Did you put them in the oven to clean??