Last week I posted the matching page for this beautiful printable scrapbook page. This is page 2 of the set. Feel free to print these pages to create beautiful memories from your summer garden or activities.
Printable Summer Scrapbook Page – Part II
Take Your Children With You
What does this picture say to you? A thousand words come to
my mind, but what it really speaks to me is Take Your Children With You. All it takes
is a split second for someone to snatch your child. Is this picture real enough
for you? I’m so thankful this precious baby was found safe after being
left under a bush along a Houston road by a carjacker. I can only image the horror this poor mother felt, when she saw her car being driven away with her 8 month old baby in the back seat.
Now that I know the baby is safe, I have to ask what the
mother was thinking leaving the baby alone in the car at a gas station. She stepped inside to pay for gas, and when she looked out the window she saw her car being driven away. Now I’m
not excusing the carjacker’s crime, a criminal is a criminal. Let’s just put
him behind bars where he belongs when he is caught. Better yet, let’s chain him to the bush where he
left the baby and just leave him there for a while. Let’s see how he likes it. Can you imagine the things that could have happened to this child just being left under a bush along a road? Luckily, a jogger heard her crying, when to look for her and than called the police. An Amber Alert had been issued.
for a mother who left her child in the car for a moment and they vanished. How
many times have we seen mothers crying because they only turned their back for a
second and their child just disappeared? How many times has it been said, don’t
leave your child/children alone in the car? When when we learn?
people? We’re always the exceptions aren’t we? People are proven wrong day
after day. To a point where I had to stop watching Nancy Grace who is an
advocate for children. Nancy comes locked and loaded, but I just couldn’t
stomach all the stories about children disappearing or being abused night after
night. I admire her tenacity and the fact that she is an advocate for children,
but her show just became too much. Now that I’m thinking about it, maybe watching her show for about a month should be a requirement for all parents. I
guarantee you will walk away believing that it is unsafe to leave your child
alone in a car in a public area for even a second.
never make the mistake of leaving our children alone in the open for a second.
The world has changed people, and if you don’t take heed you will find yourself
a victim of the heartless, senseless, criminals that prey on the naive and
unsuspecting. They stand behind you in
the grocery store line, they hold doors open for you, and they wait until you
let your guard and they spring on you. There’s no profile for them, but there
is one for us. We see the world through rose colored glasses and we will
eventually leave the door open for a crime to be committed because we’re naive and unsuspecting.
still standing on a foundation of honesty, goodwill, peace and love.
We still believe that a hand shake and our word will bond us or simply a smile. It’s a different world in which we we live people and we need to wake up. We ask who would harm an innocent child? There are many, who would harm your child in a blink of an eye.
I’m sure the carjacking and her missing baby will haunt this mother forever, but I pray that she can find peace now.
Wordless Wednesday: Cluck Cluck Cluck
Printable Scrapbook Page: Summer Page 1
Do you scrapbook? I started scraping several years ago, and I’m hooked. I love preserving family memories, especially my grandchildren. I love grabbing the albums that I’ve completed and sharing the memories with other family. I always tell a story when I going through them with my grandchildren. They love hearing about themselves or whomever is in the picture. We spend hours laughing and reminiscing.
I have hundreds of pictures that need to be added to books. I’ve invested in paper, stickers, albums, glue, you name it. I have the Cricut machine and the cartridges for die cuts. I love scrapping.
I shop for all my scrapbooking supplies at discount stores or sales at Michael’s. I’ve found stickers, buttons,albums and paper at Big Lots, Ollies, and the Dollar Store. You can also find great deals on line. Oriental Trading is a great place to purchase Brads and paper. Purchase when they have free shipping. The also have premade scrapbooks for those who are confident in laying out pages just yet. I look at my pages now versus when I started years and ago, and I’ve come a long way in my creativity.
Feel free to print this page. It’s one of my favorites, and would be great to create memories of those beautiful flowers you have growing in your garden this summer. I will be posting the coordinating page in my next free printable post.
What Happened the Year You Were Born?
- The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is published.
- The 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Muhammad Ali wins a gold medal at the summer Olympics.
- Elvis Presley returns from Germany after serving in the Armed Forces for 2 years.
- Vietnam War: The United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers will be sent to Vietnam.
- U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy is nominated for President at the Democratic National Convention.
- U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon is nominated for President at the Republican National Convention.
- Robert F. Kennedy calls Coretta Scott King, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, and secures his release from jail on a traffic violation in Atlanta, Georgia.
- First successful kidney transplant is performed in the United Kingdom.
- Basketball player Wilt Chamberlain grabs 55 rebounds.
- The Birth Control Pill Is Approved
- Presidential Debates are televised
- Sit in begins at the Woolworth Lunch Counter in Greensboro, NC
- Hollywood Walk of Fame begins. Joanne Woodward is given the first star.
10 Things This Grandmother Did As A Child
If you’re not a Baby Boomer, you may not remember this old, heavy, black phone. When I was growing up, it could be found in just about every home in America at one point. Party lines came along with it. What is a party line you ask? It means that you shared phone lines with neighbors. You could pick up the phone to make a call and hear your neighbor talking. If you did, you had to put the phone down and wait your turn. If you were anxious to make a call, it seemed like they were talking, talking and talking, the conversation never ended. Unless it was an emergency, you didn’t interrupt. You graciously waited. Party lines, 5 brothers and a sister helped teach me patience and tolerance.
Back than, there were no cell phones or laptops. You had to be creative, find your own entertainment and learn to live with each other as a family. There were no on-line games, social media sites, and the television didn’t have hundred’s of channels. There was no cable; we had rabbit ears and antennas to bring the picture in on the television. We have come a long way in technology, but I truly appreciate the simply things in life. Times were gentler back in the day. It seems like we go a hundred miles an hour all day everyday now.
I look back at my childhood, and it was a much slower and gentler time. We entertained each other and families spent quality time together. Here’s what my childhood looked like:
- We played games together. – I remember spending hours playing Candy Lane, Monopoly, War, Old Maids, Hide and Seek, Mother May I, Hopscotch and roller skating on the sidewalk. When I got older, we spent Sundays at the roller skating rink.
- We played baseball in our backyard.
- We caught fire flies at night and butterflies in the day.
- We went to the local Burger Joint for the most delicious burgers, fries, and the thickest shakes that you can imagine. No McDonald’s burgers for us.
- We walked our neighborhood and explored nature all day. Our parents never worried about us, and we were carefree.
- We watched television as a family on Saturday mornings. Sunday nights we watched most of my father’s favorite shows, but we watched and was happy to do it. We popped popcorn on top of the stove in a pan and watched Tom Jones, Hee Haw, Lawrence Welk, and Gunsmoke. I’m telling my age here, but they were good times and I’m comfortable with my age, ha!
- We gathered pop bottles in a red Western Flyer wagon and returned them for pennies. Yes, pennies. We could buy candy all day for a quarter from our local stores. We had Pixie Sticks, Kits, Red Hots, Fire Balls and Bon Bons. Pay Day and Baby Ruth’s were my favorite candy bars and still are.
- I lived in a small town, so the local carnival in the summer was a big deal. We had a parade with local High School marching bands, fire trucks from all over the local areas, clowns, and floats. I can still feel the butterflies in my stomach from the Ferris Wheel. My mother allowed us to stay until closing, mid-night, while she played Bingo. We even walked home in groups at that time of night, without worry of being snatched, raped or harmed in some way.
- We waited for the ice cream truck, Mr. Softie, to come to the neighborhood. We got so excited when we heard the music. I always got a a blue or red Italian Ice or a Push Up. For years, I didn’t know the Italian Ice flavors were Cherry or Blue Raspberry. They were just colors to me.
- Saturday mornings after the cartoons, mom and dad went grocery shopping. Each week one of us kids would get to go with them and pick out whatever we wanted in the store. If it didn’t have to be cooked, they allowed us to eat it in the car on the way home. That was a treat and a great time for whoever’s turn it was.