July 18 Meeting at KAthy's

Thanks everyone for coming to my house for bookclub.  It was a steamy night but we made the best of it.  We also had a special guest, Doloras, Dricka’s cousin.

We started with crab salad, garden salad and three bean salad, apparently a good day for salads.  Sylvia brought veggie platter with crab dip, Dricka  yummy cookies, Roe pastries  and Pam  wine.  I also made some lemonade pie which is always good for hot weather.

“Before we were Yours” by Lisa Wingate was a good read. All seemed to think it was well written and disclosed important information about the horrid sale of children under the guise of giving them a better home.  Poor people were duped by Georgia Train to give up their children who basically sold them to wealthy clients and this went on from 1920’s until 1950.  I passed around newspaper clipping showing “ads”  offering these children as “Christmas Baby”,  “Your for the Asking” and “Wants a home”.  We discussed our personal experience with adoption and foster care.  I had a childhood friend whose parents took in foster children and had to give them up after 2 years.  I could  never understand how they could do that.  Louisa mentioned that her brother who had 2 biological children adopted 7 children.  That’s amazing.  Carol related that someone she knows is now in the process of adopting 2 siblings. Edna shared with us that she and Glen tried to be foster parents but were only given older teen children who were too close in age with herself.  Not an ideal situation.

After our discussion we walked over to the park for a concert with Nathan Bartis Band.  They were very good but it was very very hot.  We were sweating just sitting in the stand. We left after they played “Country Roads”, perfect.

Our next meeting is August 15 at Roe’s house and will read "Karolinas Twins" by Ronald Balson.

Kathy G