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“Grandma laughed. “You’d be surprised. It’s awfully hard to dislike someone when you really pray for them. In fact the person you pray for could turn out to be one of your best friends.”
― Arleta Richardson, More Stories from Grandma's Attic (Grandma's Attic Series Book 2)

“Most everything in Grandma's house had a story, but the basket was full of them! The basket contained buttons . . .all sizes, shapes, colors, and kinds.”
― Arleta Richardson, In Grandma's Attic

“The Prettiest House in the County Grandma, Uncle Roy, and I were sitting around the kitchen table in the old farmhouse. We had just sampled some gingerbread, hot from the oven, and I was listening to Grandma and her brother as they talked about the farm. “The house really could stand some paint, Roy,” Grandma said. “How long since it’s been done?” Uncle Roy’s eyes twinkled as he replied. “It’s been painted since the barn has.” Grandma began to laugh, and I knew that they both had remembered something from their childhood. “Tell me!” I begged. “What happened that was funny?” “I have to get back out to work, so you’ll have to tell her, Mabel,” Uncle Roy insisted. Grandma got up to clear the table and began the story.”
― Arleta Richardson, Still More Stories from Grandma's Attic (Grandma's Attic Series Book 3)

“the”
― Arleta Richardson, More Stories from Grandma's Attic (Grandma's Attic Series Book 2)

“happen”
― Arleta Richardson, Still More Stories from Grandma's Attic (Grandma's Attic Series Book 3)

“stomach”
― Arleta Richardson, Still More Stories from Grandma's Attic (Grandma's Attic Series Book 3)

“you did it, not because you’re being punished. He can tell the difference too!”
― Arleta Richardson, Still More Stories from Grandma's Attic (Grandma's Attic Series Book 3)

“The Grandma’s Attic Series In Grandma’s Attic More Stories from Grandma’s Attic Still More Stories from Grandma’s Attic Treasures from Grandma’s Attic”
― Arleta Richardson, Treasures from Grandma's Attic

“wish”
― Arleta Richardson, Still More Stories from Grandma's Attic (Grandma's Attic Series Book 3)

“I thought it over as I trudged back to the house. I could visualize how beautiful my room would look with just that one more thing done. But a month was a long time to face three cows morning and night. If I could get Reuben to take four cows while I milked two … but Pa wouldn’t allow that. Everyone did his or her share around our place.”
― Arleta Richardson, Treasures from Grandma's Attic

“Nellie the horse and her trips to town, or a cow named Molly Blue, or the Indian who came out of the woods. I wish you could have known Arleta’s grandma, Mabel. You would have loved her. She was born well over one hundred years ago on a little farm in Michigan. What a long, long time ago! Is it hard to imagine anyone that old ever being a little girl? But of course she was, and she remembered very well. Arleta never saw the little log house where Grandma Mabel was born, but she could imagine how it looked. It had one big room that was warmed by a fireplace and a big cookstove. Her brothers slept in a loft overhead, and Mabel slept in a trundle bed beside her parents’ bed. (A trundle bed is a little cot that slides under a bigger bed during the day.) The cabin sat in a small clearing in the woods, and even though there were no neighbors close by, the family felt safe and protected in its little home. By the time Mabel was ready to go to school, the log cabin had been replaced by the big farmhouse that still stood two generations later when Arleta was a little girl. Arleta’s trips to Grandma Mabel’s old home were so much fun. She explored from the attic to the root cellar, from the barn to the meadow brook. Everywhere she looked, she found a story! The attic was dusty and creaky, but what marvelous things it contained: a funny-looking wire thing that turned out to be something to wear, the button basket—a”
― Arleta Richardson, In Grandma's Attic

“a twinkle in her eye. “Someday I may be old too!”
― Arleta Richardson, Still More Stories from Grandma's Attic (Grandma's Attic Series Book 3)

“Sarah Jane’s mother came over, I was sure the answer would be no. But it wasn’t! If Laura’s parents really wanted two houseguests, I could go. The next few days were a flurry of getting ready. “I’ll only need to take my very best summer dresses, Ma,” I told her, “and my good shoes.” “What do you plan to wear to play in?” she asked me. “You can’t run around outside in your good clothes.” “I don’t think you run around outside in the city,” I replied. “I think you just dress up and look pretty.” “That could get old in a hurry. You’d better take a few things, just in case.” My box was packed and repacked several times before the Monday arrived to leave. “If you don’t stand still,” Ma warned me that morning, “I won’t have your hair combed by the time the Clarks get here. You don’t want to keep them waiting, do you?”
― Arleta Richardson, Still More Stories from Grandma's Attic (Grandma's Attic Series Book 3)

“Guaranteed to remove wrinkles.”
― Arleta Richardson, Still More Stories from Grandma's Attic (Grandma's Attic Series Book 3)

“I wonder how long it will take to dry.”
― Arleta Richardson, Still More Stories from Grandma's Attic (Grandma's Attic Series Book 3)

“thing with God sometimes. We know He has promised to be there. But things happen”
― Arleta Richardson, Still More Stories from Grandma's Attic (Grandma's Attic Series Book 3)

“Gloom”
― Arleta Richardson, Still More Stories from Grandma's Attic (Grandma's Attic Series Book 3)