http://www.fourfoldmom.com/2009/03/30/time-for-guilt/ Bringing good things into your life - one "fold" at a time .... Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:47:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.fourfoldmom.com/2009/03/30/time-for-guilt/comment-page-1/#comment-345 pmit Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:29:42 +0000 http://www.fourfoldmom.com/?p=402#comment-345 My mom was the typical 1950's mom which was the post WWII mom generation. My Dad always said that the 50's was the best time to live because of the prosperity, peace, and generally good times that most were experiencing in the states. My mom didn't have time to 'play' games with us even though she was a 'stay at home' mom but did offer us many suggestions on games or activities we could do with each other and neighborhood children. There was the making of bubbles by softening soap in a lid with a little water then placing an empty spool of thread in the solution and blowing through the hole. This made beautiful bubbles. Then she instructed us on how to make panels for our own personal quilts. She showed us how to make pot holders, cut paper dolls out of old catalogs, make our own batch of cookies, play 'Annie come over' with a ball being tossed over the roof, to play 'kick the can' on a warm summer night, how to plant flowers in the spring, and the list goes own. Even though she didn't do these things with us she provided the instruction and encouragement which gave us endless hours of fun in what would have been some long boring summer or rainy days. My mom was the typical 1950’s mom which was the post WWII mom generation. My Dad always said that the 50’s was the best time to live because of the prosperity, peace, and generally good times that most were experiencing in the states.
My mom didn’t have time to ‘play’ games with us even though she was a ’stay at home’ mom but did offer us many suggestions on games or activities we could do with each other and neighborhood children. There was the making of bubbles by softening soap in a lid with a little water then placing an empty spool of thread in the solution and blowing through the hole. This made beautiful bubbles. Then she instructed us on how to make panels for our own personal quilts. She showed us how to make pot holders, cut paper dolls out of old catalogs, make our own batch of cookies, play ‘Annie come over’ with a ball being tossed over the roof, to play ‘kick the can’ on a warm summer night, how to plant flowers in the spring, and the list goes own. Even though she didn’t do these things with us she provided the instruction and encouragement which gave us endless hours of fun in what would have been some long boring summer or rainy days.

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