Beneath the Wraps

CD from Peggy Bird           A month before Jenna was born, my former neighbor and second mother, Peggy had given us twelve children’s books and a CD. I had exposed Jenna to music early in life.   Before she was born I would put headphones around my stomach and let her listen to Classical Baby and primary songs.          As she got older, we would go to the library and check out CDs featuring Ronno, Bill Harley, Eric Herman and Patty Shukla.   We learned rhymes, rhythm, laughter and more.   Jenna was always singing – she’d sing songs we had learned and often she would just make up her own words and tunes.   Jenna has always been a happy girl.   She has always been confident.   scrapbook page of my sister and her husband with Jenna and Anna As I had mentioned in this post, we had listened to CDs that we played in her childhood. When she made the comment about Ronno’...

Jenna has never been greedy with her wish list. Some things are not practical. Generally her wish is short. She rated the following from 1 - 10, 10 being the highest.   Only 7 things on her list. What I'd like to fulfill most is wish #4. That will require a lot of prayer. She just wrote her list in random order but not order of importantness.   The two things from the list that she would like most I don't have control. 1.       New   charger for tablet (Roland finally broke down and got one for her as she was using up his phone battery.)                           rates this as a 2 2.       "Everyone wants to steal your cheese" t- shirt            rates a 7.   3.       toy box chocolate surprise                 ...