Archive for the ‘Flat Stanley’ Category

• A fall Walk

  Date: 2007.09.11 | Category: Flat Stanley, Twins | Response: 0

  The weather here has turned “cold” rather quickly.  I use the term “cold” loosely.  By Jackson, MS standards, the weather is cold and wintry.  But by northern WI standards the weather is not that cold, and we are enjoying a pleasant fall.  The leaves have started turning but aren’t falling yet. The high temps the last few days have not even reached 70.  Right now it’s the “heat of the day” and it’s only 52 degrees.  The twins went for a walk (as is their custom) all the way down to the end of the street.  They wanted their hats and mittens because the air was so chilly.  But mid-way down the street (there are no sidewalks here), they pulled off their mittens and gave them to Momma.

  Then they began to play their usual game:  run like a squirrel, walk like a bear, run like a buck, fly like an eagle, be a roadrunner, hop like a kangaroo, hop like a bunny, run like a female deer and baby deer.  Rachel and Alexis took turns being the baby deer and the mommy deer.  Then they decided to be a tree and move around in the wind! It is so windy out there today that the trees complain with every gust, shaking and shuddering in the chilling gale.

• Labor Day Weekend: the arrival of Flat Stanley

  Date: 2007.09.03 | Category: Flat Stanley | Response: 0

  (My cousin Rachel has a Teacher Ed project involving Flat Stanley. All entries in this category are for this project. They are written from the perspective of Stanley)

  When I arrived in the mail on Saturday, Sept. 1, Things were crazy. It seemed people were everywhere — I could hear voices from inside my envelope. When my hostess opened the large brown clasp envelope, she yelled, “Oh yeah! Flat Stanley is here!” But she quickly shoved me under something hard and cold.

  Soon enough I figured out that Heather (my hostess) was having a garage sale. She stuck me under the money box so that I couldn’t blow away. I enjoyed looking up into the blue sunny sky and watching the very tall oak trees.

  After the sale was over, we had dinner on the deck. Then we played in the sand
  They forgot to take me to church yesterday… and they left without me to go out to dinner! I guess they just forgot to take me down off the refrig. When they got home, they had been to Wal-mart, too! So once the groceries were put away, we all had a campfire last night. The used oak and maple and birch logs and used birch bark and spruce branches as kindling. Birch bark and dry spruce branches are very flammable. The whole family slept in a tent last night, but as usual, Rachel couldn’t fall asleep in the tent — only her in crib. Alexis, however, settled down very well next to her mother for a night under the stars.

  When we woke up this morning, i suppose that everyone moved into the house sometime after midnight. It was cold out there on the deck.