Dear Reader:

As I have mentioned several years now…(thank you God!) fall, autumn, and halloween are my favorite times and events of the year….give me a pumpkin patch and a hayride…and I am a happy camper.

Today while you are reading this blog…that is exactly where I will be …with Eva Cate. Her school is closed Monday and Tuesday for C of C fall break… since ECDC is associated with the college…they are closed too.

Mandy got an email Friday from the school stating that several parents would like to meet (with their children) at the Boone Hall Pumpkin Patch Monday morning. They were counting numbers to see if everyone would fit on one hayride together.

Since I am keeping Eva Cate…we will be heading over there….all bundled up (who would have thought it…the first chilly pumpkin patch expedition in as long as I can remember.) We usually return with a sunburn. The only “burn” I will get this year is probably a windburn. Will have lots of fun to share.

Several surveys have been taken about children’s favorite quotes from  popular children’s books…concentrating especially on the messages that stuck with these children throughout life….I love them all.

These are the top 20….I will give you the link so you can pull it and several other similar surveys . (Anne…thank you for the “find” and idea.)

20 Quotes From Children’s Books Every Adult Should Know

1. A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

2. Dr Seuss, Horton Hears a Who

3. Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse

4. A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

5. Roald Dahl, The Twits

6. Dr. Seuss, Oh the Places You’ll Go

7. Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic

8. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

9. L. Frank Braum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

10. A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

11. E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

12. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

13. J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

14. Shel Silverstein

15. Roald Dahl, The Minpins

16. Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

17. P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins

18. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

19. Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

20. A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

Aren’t they all wonderful…. one sticks out for me personally at this stage in my life.

“It’s no use to go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”

(This quote completely describes the transformation I have undergone since my initial diagnosis of breast cancer in May of 2008.) And, as I have said many times before…I don’t want to return to that Pre-“little c” Becky…she was nice enough but she didn’t really “get it”…she didn’t understand life and seeing (through new lenses every day miracles unveiling. Now she does.

So think of me shivering a little but happy to be in a place where I can share a special memory with one grandchild and her friends.

“Today is my favorite day”  Winnie the Pooh

• Harriett Edwards sent me a picture of her pink rose she had placed in her vase (as a memento of her 10th anniversary since her diagnosis …my rose went into Eva Cate’s hand for our fifth anniversary walking the race together. For both of us…“Lo, how a rose er’ blooming….” (and she is!)
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