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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond Report 17 Jan 2014 05:57

Lol, Sharron, they do say Out of the mouths (and crayons) of babes.......

I still have a big portfolio of my son's paintings etc and almost every toy and book he ever owned. The only things I passed on were his trike, slide and sandpit, to a cousin with boys younger than my son.

His flat isn't big enough now it's been adapted to make a bedroom for his gf's little boy M. so he can't have the things there but M. would love the big box of lego, altho he has plenty of his own.

Lizx

Sharron

Sharron Report 16 Jan 2014 20:41

I had a moluccan cockatoo and took him to the primary school.

All the children did drawings and I was presented with a book afterwards.

Like I am a big green North face off the Eiger and there is a tiny little thing like a fly perched on me.

JoyBoroAngel

JoyBoroAngel Report 16 Jan 2014 19:06

I love looking at old things connected to my family
it brings back so many happy memories :-D :-D

Researching:
The birth of Middlesbrough

BrendafromWales

BrendafromWales Report 16 Jan 2014 19:04

I have letters my children sent to me when I was in hospital 62 miles from home in 1971.
Have lots from grandchildren too and can't bear to throw away the little trinkets they've bought me through the years...sentimental ,or what?

JoyBoroAngel

JoyBoroAngel Report 16 Jan 2014 17:14

I still have all my kids toys and they are in their 30s (in the loft)
and all the pictures and exercise books
that they brought home from school :-D :-D

Researching:
The birth of Middlesbrough

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 16 Jan 2014 17:10

I have a couple of tes towels like that from the Grandchildren when they were little. Still have them, oh and a peg bag, got that somewhere

Researching:
Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

jax

jax Report 16 Jan 2014 17:00

I did have something similar made into a Tea towel, must have been when eldest daughter was about 9 for the millennium

No idea what happened to that unfortunatly :-(

Researching:
Nothing much

GlasgowLass

GlasgowLass Report 16 Jan 2014 16:30

.........................
Whilst clearing out a kitchen drawer, I found something that made me smile.

It is dated 2003 when my youngest daughter was about 10yrs old.
Every one of the 25 children in her primary school class had drawn a self portrait and the drawings with their names, were collated and put onto one A3 laminated sheet.
As I looked at it, and remembered everyone, I realised that they would all be 20-21yrs old now.
Then I realised that 2 of these beautiful children are no longer with us.
One died aged 16yrs, the other at 18yrs

I feel quite sad now

:-( :-( :-(

Researching:
Brannan/ McGrath/ Kerr/ Jordan/ Finnigan NI and Free State. Devlin/ Lamont / Lamond/ Fyfe/ Pollock/ Johnston/Struthers/ Smith. Scotland. Avi: Hand Fasting or Tying The Knot. Daughters wedding 2016