A to Z Challenge: Z is for Zebra

Z is for zebra

in my little people zoo.

It's been so fun to play the A to Z challenge,

but now I am through.

Goodbye.

I really have had fun blogging from A to Z. Almost as much fun as I used to have going to the zoo as a child and seeing real zebras. They were my favorite animal next to the elephants.

I hope you had fun blogging form A to Z too. Hopefully you made it all the way through the alphabet. I almost did--I missed X. I was too busy last weekend to draw that picture and write a post. 

Until next year, have fun coming up with ideas of what you'll blog from A to Z about in April 2014. :)

A to Z Challenge: Y is for Yoyo

Y is for yo yo

that moves up a string

attached to my finger,

it's a curious thing.

I never had my own yo yo  but my older brothers had lots of them. They could do lots of trick with them. They let me try my hand often with their yo yo. Unfortunately, I could never really make them work very good.

Did you have a yoyo as a child?  If so, were you very good at it?

A to Z Challenge: W is for Wagon

W is for wagon.
I can ride in its bed,
or fill it with stuff
and pull it instead.

My red Radio Flyer was one of my most favorite toys as a child. It was a race car and I was the driver. It was a covered wagon for me and my friends to cross the pretend plains. It was a lemonade stand on wheels. And it was a platform for many an amateur float in a children's parade. In fact, it was such a cherished toy, that I still have it. It's down in my furnace room, and it's missing its handle, but I can't bear to part with it. I'm hoping that one day I might have it restored.
Do you have any toys from your childhood still in your possession?

A to Z Challenge: V is for Vacuum

As a kid I loved to play house. One of my friends had a play vacuum and we all loved to use that vacuum and pretend to clean the floor, so much so that often we even fought over the vacuum. Why is it when kids grow up they no longer fight over vacuuming the floor? They don't even pretend to want to do housework.
Oh, well, I don't pretend to like housework either. At least I don't mind vacuuming. I think my least favorite thing has to be doing the laundry.
What's your least favorite part of housework?

Announcing the release of my new book: THE BIG DEBATE

The Big Debate comes out today. Check out my book blog tour and everything else I am a reader not a writer blog has put together to help you find out more about my book, as well as some awesome contests to help celebrate its release.


 

Blog Tour Schedule

 

The Big Debate (Literary Loom #1)

A to Z Challenge: U is for Umberella

U is for umbrella

that's in a small size

to help keep me dry,

or the sun from my eyes.

I had all sorts of toy or small-sized umbrellas as a child. They never really kept me dry in the rain. First of all they were more for decoration and/or to play dress-up with. Second of all, I grew up in Utah. It's a desert. People rarely use umbrellas, especially not kids. When it would rain in the summer it was a treat. Forget the umbrella--we loved running outside and playing in the rain. We wanted to get wet.

A to Z Challenge: T is for Train

T is for train
that pulls lots of cars.
One for coal, a caboose,
and a bear behind bars.

My older brother had a train set and would let me help him put together the tracks, and sometimes even run the train. I loved watching the model engine pull its collection of cars around the figure-eight, oval, or whatever shape we decided for that day. As a child, I also loved visiting my grandmother out in the country. Her farmhouse was close to a railroad track. It was fun seeing the smashed pennies my older brothers would put on the track--without my parent's knowing about it, of course.
Those are some of my favorite memories about trains. What are some of yours?