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This week, I've been reading "The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Treasury" at bedtime to my kids.
The same kids that I commented about on Facebook earlier today when I wrote in my status line: "my kids think that "get your karate uniforms on now!" means "take off your clothes, run all around in your underwear rather than putting on your uniforms, act completely crazy, use your outdoor voices indoors, and start hitting each other with your karate belts until someone gets hurt or someone spits on someone else and then tell mom that the other kid was up to shennanigans!" Gaaaa!"
Betty MacDonald (author) and Maurice Sendak (illustrator) put out the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle stories in the 1940s and 1950s. The book inside cover says: "Ages 6-10: Children love Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle for her upside-down house, her delicious cookies and her ability to understand just how they feel. Their parents love her because she knows how to cure absolutely any bad habit. Her outrageous antidotes for Answer-Backers, Never-Want-To-Go-To-Bedders, and Waddle-I-Doers have endeared her to millions of readers."
Indeed, the kids find the stories hilarious but they are quite wordy and don't have many pictures which works magic in the falling asleep department - both for the kids and this parent! But I love the clever solutions she has to problems like "never-pick-up-the-toys" and other habits (see picture below) that my children exhibit on a very daily basis.
So here's my ode to Mrs. Piggle Wiggle - a scrapbooking pocket page - I stuck the jacket of the book in the pocket (btw about those book jackets - my kids really don't like them on the books anyway - they always want to tear them off and just hold the actual book).
Supplies: Miss Elizabeth's Letters (which just happen to match almost perfectly to the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle's name on the book sleeve); Sassafras, and some other odds and ends - from My Little Shoebox I think.
No products have been added to this project.
Thanks for spreading positivity!
March 12, 2010
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