This is a far-from-comprehensive list of the books-n-things I discovered on my shelf upstairs:
- A breastfeeding manual from a FORMULA company. Doh!
- Dr. Spock’s original child-reading manual.
- A 1983 Miss Piggy calendar.
- Grant’s copy of Almost Twelve that he got when he was 13!
- The FDR portrait that my paternal grandparents had hanging on the wall next to their pic of Jesus Christ.
- My Muppet Show Fan Club paraphrenalia.
- Sewing patterns from the 40s and 50s.
- Tickets from a 1992 trip to Disneyland.
- Grant’s baby picture.
- Matching books by the Tripp brothers (Tedd’s Shepherding a Child’s Heart and Paul’s War of Words). Read the first (threw it across the room). Haven’t made it through the second.
- Kenneth Burke’s Towards a Better Life
- Act of Marriage.
- My Kitchen Aid blender manual.
- My Sam and Joe series from 6th grade.
- A stack of old-timey portraits of people I don’t recognize.
- My Bush-Quayle bumper sticker (never used).
- The What to Expect books (that went promptly to charity).
- My Polish Barbie.
- A well-loved copy of Bach’s Italian Concerto.
- Several Bloom County volumes.
- A 1972 Nixon-Ford button.
- Insider’s Guide to Indiana University.
- Joyful Womanhood.
- A BJU Calendar of Events from 1991, when Grant and I were on the cover.
- A Red Velvet Cake recipe.
- A big stack of 15.5 year old wedding invitations.
- Evaluation sheets from every speech I gave as an undergrad. What is WRONG with me for keeping those?
- Three Ezzo books. Grrrrr.
- Book of Mormon.
- Baltimore Catechism.
- Vis-A-Ed French flashcards.
- My many penpal letters from undergrad when I had about 20 penpals just so I could get mail. And I did! I can’t believe how much I wrote all of them. I think this blog is the same kind of thing.
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Wow, Camille! You are a bigger pack-rat than I! I had to do away with so many things I cherished when Grandma moved in. I tried my best to rationalize each thing as to why I wanted it. So hard to let go!!!
Very interesting peek at your shelf! Are you keeping the calendar for the cute pics? *grin*
Hey Dr. Lewis? Wassupy? Wow, that’s a load.
The Miss Piggy calendar is a keeper – for the pictures, of course. Hope you dumped all the Ezzo stuff.
And I thought ‘I’ was a pack rat! I have learned that one of the best ways for me to ‘keep’ my sanity about ‘stuff’ in my house, is to just ‘give myself some slack’ and forgive myself. The ‘rest’ can go to the Sally Ann thrift store, and, recycle! I love your honesty Camille. You’re ‘so’ human. It makes you so approachable and trustworthy. A special gift. And you have ‘no’ idea what my basement looks like! I can barely look at it myself. About that Baltimore catechism. Good stuff, but remember Vatican Two developed a more Graceful attitude towards the Protestants than it had before. Also Vatican two really did try to address three biggies: Legalism, Clericalism, and Triumphalism. Often the problem with legalism can be ‘more’in the believer’s misunderstanding of Grace and freedom, and of their catholic Faith, than it what they falsely perceive, the clergy is ‘telling’ them. We all need to take off our ‘legal’ glasses, and take the ‘legal’ ear muffs, off our ears. When we do that, we find ourselves so surprised, at how free our church has suddenly become! But truthfully, we ‘all’ need more reform and renewal in the area of Grace. God is good. He’s still working on all of us.