You Can Do It, Sam!
My youngest son and I bought a children's book titled You Can Do It, Sam by Amy Hest. In the story a small bear and his mother bake cakes and then deliver them to their neighbors. They baked 12 cakes, but saved the last 2 to eat themselves when they got home. After reading this book at least once a day for a couple of weeks to my 7-year old son, he told me that he wanted to do the same thing for Christmas Eve. He even picked out a special baking tin in the store that he asked me to buy. It had room to bake 6 individual heart-shaped cakes. On the morning of Christmas Eve, I mixed up the chocolate cake batter, with help from my son. We ended up baking 18 small heart cakes. We frosted each cake, before we put it into a sandwich-sized ziploc. We added a ... Read Full Story >>
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- Dec 5, 2008
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Returning A Stolen Briefcase
About 3 months ago, my 20-year old son was riding home from town/grocery store, he found a briefcase in the bushes. Yes, he has very sharp eyes! He’s always looking for broken bike parts, because he fixes bikes and in our town bikes are vandalized daily. The briefcase had a wallet and lots of papers in it. Everything was in it, except cash. My son brought the briefcase home, and I spent about an hour on the phone until I located the owner of it. Yay! Persistence pays off! I’m met him at the train station this next day to give it to him. Here is the story he told me: “On March 29, 2007, he was riding the train home from his job in Osby. (he lives in Lund) He had his briefcase between his feet on the floor. He fell asleep around Hässleholm, but woke up about 15 minutes later as the train ... Read Full Story >>
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- Dec 29, 2007
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