Jan. 30, 2006
spaghetti with roasted parakeet and other bedtime stories

every night my youngest daughter asks to hear a story from "when i was a little kid." the pet stories have been the biggest hits and tonight's story brought gales of laughter. it was one of my petie the parakeet stories about the time he was flying around the house and landed in a pot of cooking spaghetti. fearing that the bird might be boiled alive, i quickly scooped him out and rinsed his blue feathers, now tinged with an orange glow. he survived, and so did we (we ate the spaghetti)!

i remember hearing stories about my own parents' childhood adventures with their siblings and how we begged for more. remember when uncle put raisins in my aunt's baby doll's diaper and when she went to change it, what a surprise! i even have memories of hearing my grandparents' childhood stories and how precious those are to me now.

reading stories to your kids creates a wonderful connection between you and the story. you are all caught up in the same imaginative world at the same time. but don't forget to tell the stories of you every now and then too. stories of our past build a heritage that they will pass on to their children. and the stories mean so much more because they are your stories, and your stories will become their stories.

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