Summer Camp and "All-Of-A-Kind Family"

Some of my best memories of summer camp, in 1967, are of unscheduled events. This, perhaps, is my best memory:
There was a row of three senior girls' bunks. A girl from one of the bunks had a little electric teapot. Every afternoon, at rest period, we would relax on the lawn in front of the bunks, sipping tea (those of us who had parental permission to drink coffee were, by implication, allowed to drink tea) and reading aloud by turns.
One book, which turned out to be everyone's favorite, was Sydney Taylor's "All-Of-A-Kind Family".
Oh, how I empathized with Sarah when her library book was lost! How I envied the girls for the game their Mama made up (hunting for buttons) to make dusting fun. (But I should admit that I never had to dust when I was a kid.)
I could almost taste the broken crackers and the candy which Charlotte and Gertie secretly
ate in bed one night.
Of course, I also loved the Jewish themes in the book, the Sabbath and the holidays.
I'm sure that I wasn't the only girl who went to her local library after coming home from
camp, and took out "More All-Of-A-Kind Family" and "All-Of-A-Kind Family Uptown".

New Items

I added some new items to my collection today, including the
very first commercial jingle on radio. I also put a link to my collection on this blog.

Special EWTN Programming

Don't miss the
SOLEMNITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI BENEDICTION AND PROCESSION FROM HANCEVILLE (LIVE)
on EWTN, 6:00PM Eastern Time.
I'm definitely going to watch!

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

Join me and other Catholic bloggers at Sunday Snippets.
Thanks once again to RAnn for hosting!


Semper Gaudete!: Special EWTN Programming

Semper Gaudete!: I Love Sunday: 1: Saturday Evening

Semper Gaudete!: I Love Sunday: 2: Prayer Schedule

Semper Gaudete!: I Love Sunday: 3: Reading

Semper Gaudete!: I Love Sunday: 4: Secular Amusements

Semper Gaudete!: Books Read in the Past Week

I Love Sunday: 4: Secular Amusements

I spend less time on secular amusements on Sunday (because I spend more time praying), but I do not go without them altogether. However, on Sunday, my secular amusements are more likely to be passive than active. An old comedy on TV, for instance.
Even the games I play regularly are played differently on Sunday. For example, before Sunday,
I plant crops on FarmVille which won't be ready to harvest until Monday, at the earliest. That way, I have very little to do on FarmVille on Sunday, except tend to my beehive. I do have some short-term crops on my English farm, but that farm is on pause while I'm on my home farm.
During the week, I play SolSuite on the computer (off-line), but on Sunday, it's MahJong Suite.
To me, just playing a different game on Sunday is another enhancement.

I Love Sunday: 3: Reading

On Sundays, I read only Catholic books from Catholic publishers.
This is not a restriction, but rather an enhancement of my Sunday observance. The books can be fiction or non-fiction, physical books or books read online. However, they are not to be too scholarly, and a book that I read on Sunday must be one that I would enjoy reading on Monday.
After all, the idea is to enhance my Sunday observance, not to make it dull.
Of course, there are certain books I read every day, Sundays included. For example: The Bible, "My Imitation of Christ", and Karen Edmisten's lovely book, "Through The Year With Mary: 365 Reflections".
I have found that I look forward to that weekly change of pace in my reading. I have also found that I enjoy the weekday books all the more for having put them aside for 24 hours.

Books Read in the Past Week

"How To Converse Continually and
Familiarly With God"
by St. Alphonsus Liguori
[spirituality, Catholic]


"Pollyanna's Jewels"
"Pollyanna's Debt of Honor"
by Harriet Lummis Smith
(fiction)


"All-Of-A-Kind Family"
"All-Of-A-Kind Family Downtown"
"More All-Of-A-Kind Family"
by Sydney Taylor
(children's fiction)