I'll explain.
Last Friday, just 4 days ago, my granddaughter Elora spent the night with me.
She discovered a stack of Berenstain Bear books that I had saved from my sons' childhood.
I had them boxed up all these years but just last week,
I decided to take them out of storage and put them out for the grandchildren to begin enjoying.
So I was across the room from her as she is flipping through one Berenstain book after another.
She casually makes the comment, "Logan sure knew how to write his name well."
I look over her way and she holds up the book and shows proof.
I had forgotten how much Logan loved these books.
He had written his name in many of them.
Staking his territory. I think he was about 7 at the time.
Tyler put his claim on some of these books, too.
A period of 25 years had passed!
Now here comes the odd part.
So then yesterday, just 3 days later, I turn on the computer and see that
The very week we rediscovered the Berenstain Bear books after 25 years.
But wait, there's more.
Back in 2003 I kept feeling I wanted to write to Mister Rogers
and thank him for being McKay's favorite TV hero back in the day.
(My older 2 sons wouldn't tolerate him, but I wasn't going to write that in my letter.)
So for months I would think, I need to write that letter!
Mister Rogers must be getting old.
Finally, and I remember this vividly, it was Feb. 28, 2003
(oh my, today is also Feb 28th....I didn't even realize the connection til just now!)
anyway...before I got up that morning in 2003, I was lying there and thought...
'This morning before I do anything else I am going to write to Mister Rogers!'
So I got out of bed, turned the computer on to write to him
and one of the top CNN news stories was that Mister Rogers died the night before!
I didn't even know he was sick, and I found out he was only 74.
But I was too late!
Looking back I think I was prompted to write, but I didn't do it in time.
Both husband and wife, authors of the Berenstain Bear books, are gone now.
She was working on 2 more books up until last Sunday,
the day before her death at age 88.
the day before her death at age 88.