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Keeping your children regulated 115 East Branch Street in Arroyo Grande
prior to boarding a plane Keeping yourself regulated
and while up in the air is very throughout the holidays will help
important. Make sure they have as well. Children easily read your
had a proper meal. In case there level of excitement and anxiety.
is a delay, make sure you have If you take care of yourself,
snacks and games on hand. It is exercise, and maintain some
easy to stash gum, hard candy, semblance of your home routine,
and small toys in a side pocket of your children will notice. They will
your bag. see you as a positive role model.
One thing that will definitely help
Typically, I do not recommend is keeping a consistent bedtime.
the use of electronic toys for Pediatricians recommend no
children. However, using an more than one-hour difference
iPad, MP3 player, or hand-held between regular bedtimes and
game system may help keep special vacation bedtimes.
your children entertained and
provide a refuge from chaotic Keeping yourself grounded is
surroundings. Have them use critical during times of high
headphones to block out the stress and excitment. Be sure to
background noise. Never use enjoy the present, and not get
ear-buds as they can cause too caught up in plans for the
permanent damage to delicate future. While it is important to
eardrums. plan ahead, it is also important to
appreciate your current activity.
Your children might also enjoy Don’t miss out on opportunities
small hand fidgets to play with. for family bonding because there
Some choices of hand fidgets is too much to do for “tomorrow.”
include any small squeeze or Enjoy every moment with your
tactile ball, a small Play-doh set family and friends, and relax as
or Silly Putty, or a plastic baggie much as possible. Give yourself
filled with beans, dried pasta, or time now to prepare your family,
corn kernels. Using weighted pack your backs (keeping them
items can be beneficial and easy under the weight limit), and get
to take along, such as weighted ready for a “joyful” holiday trip
lap pads, vests, or neck pads. for everyone.
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Fun & Games Jack’s Jokes
What do you call a musical elf? Christmas Wrapper!
What is Claustrophobia? The fear of Santa Claus!
Help the Snowflakes What is your parents favorite carol? Silent Night!
Winter
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Family Life
Classic Toys by Debra Newby
Winter is here, and once again I was thinking about all those
we have a great excuse to feel holiday foods that we will be
good and do nice things for our buying, and I found out what
families and strangers alike. my grandma was spending for
You can say hello to everyone food during the holiday season.
and give presents to the special In 1936, our Piggly Wiggly was
people in your life. The stores selling a pound of butter for 19
are loaded with Christmas and cents. They didn’t sell milk by
Hanukkah decorations and gift the plastic gallon jug, but in cans.
ideas for those we love, honor, You could buy 5 cans of milk for the holidays is that I get to buy and found bikes that cost over
and are thankful for. 21 cents and get out your can things for my grandkids. I can’t $100. Way back in 1932, I could
opener at home. I guess you wait to check out the Toys ‘R Us have bought a bike with hand
The stores are also giving us could have bottles of fresh milk winter catalog that mysteriously grips and a cool paint job for
ideas for special dinners that we delivered to your home from the shows up in my mailbox every $7.00. Now, these vintage bikes
can make for the winter holidays. creamery on Higuera or Nipomo year. I seriously wonder how I are worth a fortune if they are in
Every year, my wife and I go Streets, but sometimes you need get on the mailing list for some excellent condition. Sears had
shopping for these dinners. As a can of milk. You could also pick of the many gift catalogs I get in a great gift catalog in 1932. A
she loads up the grocery cart up a pound of America’s favorite the mail. customer could order just about
with great meal ingredients and food for 19 cents a pound: bacon. anything from a bike to a grand
hums Jingle Bells, I think about Now, those are the kind of prices My wife has already set up piano (the piano may have cost
how much all of this costs and I would love to pay. my Amazon.com wish list you about $400).
imagine the great leftovers in my and reminded me how to add
future. When I jump to the December things and how to check out Another classic toy that parents
of 1975, I see that people were other family members’ lists. My buy for their kids is the Glo-Worm.
While I was thinking about the paying $1.40 for milk, and a loaf grandson Elliott has a list of 41 I remember buying the worm
holidays recently, I decided of bread cost 28 cents. The cost items. The other night, I noticed for my daughters in 1985 when
to find out if any of my old of sending a Christmas card was that some of the items on his list the Glo-Worm cost about $7.00.
newspapers had grocery store 13 cents. Ten years later in 1985, were the same toys I wrote on Today, there are a variety of Glo-
ads. I found some papers from milk was $2.26 per gallon, bacon the list that I sent to Santa Claus Worms and they cost around
1932, 1936, and a few from the was $1.65 a pound, and a stamp in the North Pole as a child. One $15.00. I have been buying
1960s and 1970s. I saw lots was 22 cents at our local grocery of my favorite toys, that inspired Barbie dolls for years now. I
of food ads and rediscovered stores. If you were loaded with hours of play, was a Mr. Potato seriously think I have purchased
something very cool. We used cash in 1945, you could buy your Head. more than thirty Barbies. I know
to have a Piggly Wiggly grocery sweetie a new car for a little over I can go down to Target and buy
store in San Luis Obispo. Piggly $1000, or a new home for around Mr. Potato Head was invented a classic Barbie doll for $6.00.
Wiggly was a chain of stores that $5,000. back in 1952 and is still going In 1959, the original Barbie cost
were numerous in the southern strong today. I think the Disney around $3.00 and looked a lot
states, but there were not many One of my favorite things about Toy Story movies introduced different than the Barbie I have
on the West Coast. The store had this toy to a new generation of bought for my daughters and
an icon that was a big pig. Our children. Over the years, I must granddaughter.
Piggly Wiggly was at 727 Marsh have received or bought Mr.
Street, which is near the location Potato Head on many occasions. I hope everyone has a wonderful
of the current CVS Drug Store. The original cost was 98 cents holiday season! Create your own
and you could have gone down history with your friends and
to Sears on Higuera Street to family. Oh, and if you happen to
buy this toy. Actually, this first find an original Barbie at a garage
version included only the body sale this month, snatch that little
parts to adorn your own real doll up for your favorite history
potato. In 1965, you could go to writer by the last name of Crabb.
J. C. Penny’s on Higuera and buy
Mr. Potato Head (with a plastic Happy Holidays To All!
potato) for $2.00.
Guy Crabb retired after teaching over 32 years,
most recently at Charles E. Teach Elementary
When I was looking to buy my School in San Luis Obispo. He was selected
as San Luis Coastal Unified School District
granddaughter Scarlett a nice Teacher of the Year for 2006-2007. Reach him
new bike, I went down to Target at crabbx5@charter.net.
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FESTIVE ANAGRAMs Popish lady hay
Aphid hay ploys 1530 Froom Ranch Way, San Luis Obispo
Anagrams are the sort of sick
fascination we word nerds Festive Anagram 2
embrace. For those who AULD LANG sYNE Lang translates to long, some-
haven’t previously played with Hydro jot towel thing that extends considerably
Jowly red tooth So what the heck does auld lang from end to end. It also showed
anagrams, an anagram can be
Jetworthy lode syne mean, anyway? People all up in English in the 1300s. Its
made by using all the letters in a
Do lower thy jot over the English-speaking world relatives include along, lunge,
given word, phrase, or sentence
Drooly Jethwo raise glasses, smooch, or eat a lounge, linger, prolong, elongate,
and re-arranging them into
Throw, pot, yodel dozen grapes while singing or longitude, and longing, and ling
something new.
listening to that enigmatic song. (as in ling cod).
For instance, here are two Festive Anagram 3
We of the English-speaking Syne means since. Syne showed
anagrams of Rudolph the Red-
Reenact a hope world have the Scots to thank
Nosed Reindeer: up in Scottish in the 1300s. Oddly,
Prehost a cone for the phrase, and Robert it took a couple of centuries
Deep northern lurid horse deed A coherent ape Burns to thank for popularizing for its equivalent, synnes or
Horror: deep tennis hurdle deed Create a phone it (though others had put the syns, to appear in English, and
A threep canoe phrase to paper before Burns).
Below are some anagrams. Each another century or so for those
group can be translated into a Enjoy translating the three Auld lang syne is translated in spellings to morph into since. It
phrase we’re likely to hear this festive anagrams into their several ways, among them: times means from the time when, or as
time of year. long ago, times long since, old a consequence of the fact that.
original forms and/or play
times gone… At the end of the Over time, its relatives appear
around with a festive anagram
Festive Anagram 1 year, we “raise a cup of kindness to have faded away, leaving it an
of your own (old schoolers
to” all the events that preceded etymological orphan.
Ahoy, hippy lads prefer to create anagrams with
Holy yap aphids pen, pencil and grey matter, the toast. Whether the events May you all have superb good
Ashy hippo lady however online anagram tools were good or bad, the song fortune this new year, especially
Soy aphid phyla are speedier). entreats us to look upon them when it comes to looking kindly
kindly, then make our way into upon past events and looking
the new year wiser for having forward to an auspicious future.
experienced those times.
Auld is an Anglo-Saxon term that Many thanks to sources: Andy’s Anagram
means old. Born in the 1300s, it Solver, OED, Etymonline and Wordnik.
survives today, still spelled auld
in Scottish. Its Anglo-Saxon root
meant aged, antique, primeval,
experienced, or adult. Auld
has its roots in a verb meaning
to grow or nourish. Auld’s
relatives include the words
elder, eldest, alto, alumni, adult,
adolescent and alumnus. Though
many languages make a clear
distinction between adjectives
used for “old” inanimate things
and those used for “old” CS Perryess writes for teens, narrates audio
sentient beings, auld (and its books, and ponders the wonder of words in a
foggy little town on California’s central coast.
modern pal, old) can be applied Find more at http://csperryess.blogspot.com,
to both. or reach him at csperryess@gmail.com.
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Hi Neighbor Month
National Stress Free Family Flower: Poinsettia
Holiday Month
Read A New Book Month
Safe Toy and Gift Month
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