National Aviary Visit

National Aviary Pittsburgh

Carnegie Library Extravaganza

Summer Reading Program celebration,Sunday 12-5.

The grandkids decorated Eat’N Park smiley cookies.

We took home lots of free books!

You could sign up for Dolly Partons
Imagination Library program to get free books sent to your child birth to 5 years old
Andrew Cardnegie-a”library card

“Reading Comics is Reading” 

The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM) and Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University hosted the NCS Cartoonist Showcase Sunday August 8th in Columbus Ohio

Dav Pilkey, Raina Telgemeier, Jamar Nicholas, Jim Benton, Maria Scrivan
Laura, Dav Pilkey, Roy and Charlie
From Philadelphia
Jim Benton
Jim Benton
Maria Scrivan
Jamar Nicholas
Baby Sitters Club graphic novel
Raina Telgemeier signs her book Expressing Feelings

Sparkly Pencils for Back to School

Just for fun. Photos by granddaughters Maura and Anna from our FaceTime call. Maura added a bit of sparkly nail polish to the mechanical pencil clips.

Anna showed me Maura painting the clip with the sparkly nail polish.

Happy Birthday Lala

Laura is celebrating her birthday Friday August 7th.

May your birthday be the start of a happy new year❤️ love, Ma

With her family on Roy’s 4th birthday August 1 2026
1984 First Birthday in Grafenwoehr Germany

Same Scene Different Day

And the tractor driver honked and waved as he raked the infield today

Ananda is fascinated with the tractor and construction vehicles.

Silent Sunday

Photos by Mary and Prema on our drive out to Ohio Friday

Four is going to be Fabulous and Fun

August 1st Roy is turning four Happy Birthday Roy

His mom Laura took his photo trying on his custom birthday shirt.

Charlie is a wonderful big brother to Roy

July 30, 2016

Northside by the Children’s Museum ten years ago. Interestingly enough I was there today 7/29 with 3 young grandkids.

Maura Found This Gem in Minnesota

from Minnesota granddaughter Maura (17) wrote

Gull Lake, Minnesota, right outside the town Nisswa. I was on a walk after dinner with Greta. Her family of 100+ people stay at a local resort and spend the week at the lake!

I love her photo so much. What a great writing prompt! And that she saw it and thought of me!