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Dear Reader,
Do peaches float? More specific, do Georgia peaches float? Next week when my grandchildren from Wisconsin will be visiting, my husband and I are going to have a birthday party for 13 year-old Seth. His birthday was in June, but we wrote a note on his card that we'd celebrate--gifts and a party--when he visited us in July. I realize teenagers tend to pooh-pooh "kid-stuff" but never-the-less, in addition to bubble machines, a barbeque, a huge blow-up house (we're borrowing from a friend) and showing movies outdoors on our carriage house, we'll be bobbing for apples or peaches. In vacant lots around Sarasota, where I live, there are makeshift Georgia Peach stands--it's that time of year. So instead of apples, I was thinking peaches, but will they float? I'll let you know.
Paul and James (our three and almost two year-old grandsons) will be at the party, too, and it's a good thing. Little kids can still easily access the "magic" inside, and it gives big kids and adults permission to be silly. Bobbing for peaches? Pin the tail on Grandma? Surrounded by bubbles and imagination, who knows what fun and crazy games we'll be playing?
Speaking of the magic of bubbles, and creativity, I couldn't resist sharing this email I received yesterday:
"Dear Suzanne, my dear friend lives in a senior community that also has a nursing home. The priest who leads mass there once a week was retiring, and she sent me a picture of him from the newspaper giving mass at the nursing home. To my delight he was shown with a bubble wand blowing bubbles at each resident. The bubbles were made with Holy Water and the bubble mix! What a delight and how innovative of him. Of course, I immediately thought of you--that is probably something you would come up with. Just thought you would like to know that others believe in the magic of bubbles."--Mary Lee Muntz
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Almost on vacation,
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
www.MuffinsandMayhem.com
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