Beneath the Wraps

Jenna LOVES to dress up in costume.   I had thought for a while that she had always wished she had blond hair, but she doesn't see it that way, though she did do chores in order to purchase a blonde wig which may look real from a distance, but the fibers themselves are polyester or some other form of plastic.   This is what she wanted to wear to school:             We had tried another bow - partly to secure the wig, but also to keep the strands off her face.   Long hair is just too bothersome right now, which is why she's had such short hair for almost a year now.   I tied a bow in scarf that Ooki had sent but it definitely did not go with her personality, though it did seem to match her shirt well                 but she did end up wearing the multi-pastel colored scarf rather than the bandana.   She did keep the...

Here is Carisa's article in News Review: Children, adults enthusiastic at Myrtle Creek Library reopening CARISA CEGAVSKE Senior Staff Writer The News-Review Carisa Cegavske Jul 3, 2017 MYRTLE CREEK — On the Myrtle Creek Library’s reopening day Monday, Tanner Reed, 5, was enthusiastically transforming a Minions T-shirt into a book bag that he could use to take home a pile of books about dinosaurs, unicorns and monsters. Tanner didn’t like to think about what would happen if the library closed again. “I’d feel really sad,” he said. Tanner was one of a dozen kids who turned up for the first day, not just of the library’s summer reading program, but also of its reopening after a three-month closure. Like the other smaller library branches of the former Douglas County Library System, Myrtle Creek’s doors were shut April 1. It’s the fifth to reopen, and it’s operating with an all-volunteer staff. The kids were thrilled to have books to check out and fun a...