What a marvelous story that you’ve written, and how proud you must be of your daughter.
Aren’t children the most glorious, precious gift?

I hope that other parents pick up on the OZ stories for their children, after the Harry Potter rage, and sadly, the Twilight series and I’ve mixed reactions on Twilight, but that’s another topic.

The Wizard of Oz is such an exceptional written series, and it is darker, but no worse than Harry Potter.

I applaud anything that promotes reading, especially reading for children.

My late-stepdaughter (why is the term late used for deceased?) was a reader, and my husband and myself are avid readers, and we like to think that we inspired that in her.

This is sort of sad, maybe, but nowadays people sit down to dinner and they have twitter or whatever, whereby when we sat down for dinner, we all read.

That’s sort of sad, I suppose, since we didn’t talk, but yet we did, because we shared what we were reading.

We used to have actual discussions about the books we were reading and that was so awesome.

We also shared a love of music, and we always have music in our house.

When our daughter was with us, we used to play guitar, and she actually played better than we do, but she played using tabliture, (?) which we avoid because we consider it cheating, but she really played so much better.

Oh and btw, we did that thing, too, with Dark Side Of The Moon, but to let you know, it actually works with several other movies, too!

That is one of my favorite albums, especially if someone gifts us with the herb.
(major hint for Christmas if anyone of my friends or family is reading this!)