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Country Living Barefoot Summers
Reflections on Home, Family and Simple Pleasures

by Faith Andrews Bedford


      As the mercury continues to rise, cries of "I'm bored!" punctuate the long, still days. What's a frazzled parent to do?

    You could begin by snatching up a copy of Country Living Barefoot Summers: Reflections on Home, Family and Simple Pleasures.

     Faith Andrews Bedford's personal snippets of childhood, motherhood, and grandparenthood are so heartwarming and pure that I found unbidden smiles gracing my lips as tension drained from my shoulders. The author's easy voice transported me back through time to, among many other memories, Valentine's boxes, lemonade stands, snowball fights, and playing dress-up. Though we cannot return to those uncomplicated times, reminiscing can provide both a wonderful stress reliever and a different perspective for today's "wired" generation.

     Ms. Andrews Bedford further increases this book's worth by including instructions for simple and inexpensive activities that are sure to quell those "I'm bored!" outbursts. Call me a deprived child if you'd like, but I never knew how to make a dandelion (or daisy) chain. Now I do! I also never knew the story behind May Days, but now I've learned how to make a May Day basket-though I believe I'll leave the furtive deliveries to my children. My youngest offspring anxiously wait the day we make edible finger paints from pudding, and my teenage daughter has already begun constructing a memory box from a shoebox and scraps.

     I believe parents, grandparents and caregivers will come to treasure Country Living Barefoot Summers: Reflections on Home, Family and Simple Pleasures. I certainly have!

The Book

Hearst Publishing
June 1. 2005
Hardcover
1588164519
Non-fiction (Memoir)
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The Reviewer

Lynda E. Lukow
Reviewed 2005
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