Kaylee ,'The Message'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Amelia Bedelia, too. *On further inspection, that seems wrong -- I'm remembering her as a sort of daft, funny housekeeper, and that's not what I'm seeing. Hmm.
Also how I remember her. I have a specific memory of the family leaving her a note asking her to dust. She wasn't sure what they meant, then found the "dusting powder", so she liberally dusted it on everything.
That's what I remember. And drawing the curtains. But baking wonderful pies, so worth the trouble.
Dressing the chicken!!
I found Amelia Bedelia annoying.
Aw, I had forgotten dressing the chicken, but it's coming back to me.
It looks the original books were from the '60s, and the new ones (written mostly in the '90s by a family member) focused on Amelia as a child.
I have such an urge to go back and read the first original one. Dressing the chicken and dusting the furniture is coming back to me, too!
I read that one recently to my son. It was at my mother-in-law's house. He liked it! Dusting the furniture, dressing the chicken, drawing the curtains. Puns.
I had one Amelia Bedelia book as a kid. It was an I Can Read book, and I think it had something to do with baseball, maybe?
Yeah, we recently read the original Amelia Bedelia book to Rose (it was in a Little Free Library -- score!), and she loved it. Dressing the chicken and drawing the drapes were her favorites. We found another one where she gets fired and goes around town trying to find a new job, which was less funny to me (or maybe it's just that the premise wears thin after a while), but I think Rose liked them both.