Seniors, Kids and October

For October's Intergenerational Storytime at Prairie Meadows a Fall, Leaves and Halloween theme was chosen by Lisa Jensen and Tara Erickson team leaders of the Books on Wheel Program through the Kasson Public Library. The children and seniors heard stories about leaves, apples , pumpkins and a scary Halloween story.















For the craft project by the children, to give to the seniors, a wax paper placemat was selected. The children helped the seniors chose their leaves and other items and then their mom's iron the
wax paper and sealed the edges and finished with a ribbon to hang in their rooms. The seniors and children throughly enjoyed this interchange between the generations and eagerly look forward to the monthly event.






Team leaders and their children.








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9/30 & 10/1 Leaves Storytime

This week the children heard stories about leaves and then colored their leaves to share with

their familes. A lot of thought of which color to choose for the leaves.

9/30

10/1

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Secrets To A Long Marriage

My husband Mike and I were married in 1973 and are celebrating our 35th wedding annivesary today. We have two children (Chad & Brooke) who have been married 8 & 6 years and two grandchildren Gage is 3 and Kindergartener Regan is 5.
My parents will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary in December.

While deciding what I would write today I did a little research on why some marriages last and some do not. I came across two very interesting articles. Neither were huge AHH moments and contrary to what we see and hear in the news and on TV, marriages are succeeding!!

The first was entitled Long-lasting Marriages: Why Do They Survive? by J. Hare. http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/html/ec/ec1460/
Generally speaking, people these days marry later; they have fewer children and reach the empty nest earlier. It isn't unusual for couples to spend 30 to 40 years together after their last child leaves home.

Despite today's high divorce rate, one out of five first marriages lasts 50 years. Such long-lasting relationships are a contemporary phenomenon. Consider this: At the end of the 19th century, the average length of marriage when one spouse died was about 28 years. Now it's over 43 years!

The second article was entitled 7 secrets to a long — and happy marriage.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19031744/. I will bet # 6 will have you going to figure out what CMAT stands for.

1. “Divorce? Never. Murder? Often!”

2. “There’s no such thing as a perfect marriage, only perfect moments.”

3. Unpack the Gunnysack

4. Never Stop Dating

5. “Love is a four-letter word spelled G-I-V-E”

6. Join the CMAT Club

7. The Discipline of Respect

Playing As Adults

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." Plato

Yet, another reason we adults should play more.
Play is just as necessary to adults as it is to children and it really DOES say a lot about a person.

So go PLAY... have fun this weekend.

Friends of the Library Meeting

The Friends of the library met today at the library. They voted to sponsor the 2009 Hot Reads For Cold Nights at the library. This will be a four month event with speakers, a game night, and book reviews with signup for eight weekly prizes. More information to follow.


They will have have a membership drive, a new quarterly newsletter (need help naming the newsletter). The group also agreed to participate in the annual Care and Share auction in November. If you or anuone you know would like to help the library with any special projects or join the Friends membership are available at the library.


The next book sale will be Thursday, November 20th 10-6, Friday, November 21st 10-5, Saturday, November 22 10-12, and a $1.00 Bag Sale Monday, November 24th 10-7. Friends member may come the night before and buy items.


At the November Friends' meeting nominations for the Friend of the Year will be accepted.

Garbage Truck Storytime Day 2

Day 2 of Garbage Truck Storytime was just as popular as Day 1. The children enjoyed the stories and movie but were excited about creating their very own truck. Lots of concentration went into the details on the trucks.

Girls working hard.

Finished truck!

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Library Signup Month

We had a mom, with her newly adopted five month old daughter, come into the library for a very special purpose. She had just offically adopted her daughter and wanted to commerate the moment with her daughter's first library card. What a great idea!!

For me it was a wonderful photographic moment! She will be the representative of the Kasson Public Library during September for library card signup.