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ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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Songbird76 said:
I have the whole series and we grew up reading the books and watching the TV series (which really has very little to do with the books). When my parents separated, I was only 5, and we went to live with a friend of my mom's in Gillette. She was a single woman and taught elementary school. She had a 2 bedroom house and it was really small, and it was only temporary, so we only had one bedroom to share...my mom and my brother and I. We each got to bring one toy, and mom brought the Little House books and that's what we read before bed each night. I ordered the whole book set and started reading them....I can understand her not liking the first one. It's very...young. I didn't remember it being so simple. Short sentences, very basic language....it's meant for little kids really. The later books are better.

We went to a Laura Ingalls open air museum somewhere when I was growing up...I think maybe in South Dakota? There's an outdoor play in the summer that's really neat, and there was some house where she lived that wasn't her family home, and a gift shop with cookbooks, etc. I think that's maybe where we got my prairie sun bonnet. Anyway, maybe have your niece try one of the later books. I didn't particularly like the first one either.
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I couldn't understand why she didn't like the books either. I grew up reading them and watching the shows too. The first book was actually my favorite, probably because it was set in Wisconsin. I think the Laura Ingalls museum you went to was in South Dakota, a teacher I worked with went there a few years ago and I remember him talking about it. My niece might think she is too old for the series now, she's almost 17 and very much a cool teen. Sadly she isn't much of a reader, her mom isn't either. That makes me sad and I know it would have made my mom sad too, my mom was a bookwork and that rubbed off on me but my sister didn't like reading and I think that rubbed off on my niece.
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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ajrwdwgirl said:
I couldn't understand why she didn't like the books either. I grew up reading them and watching the shows too. The first book was actually my favorite, probably because it was set in Wisconsin. I think the Laura Ingalls museum you went to was in South Dakota, a teacher I worked with went there a few years ago and I remember him talking about it. My niece might think she is too old for the series now, she's almost 17 and very much a cool teen. Sadly she isn't much of a reader, her mom isn't either. That makes me sad and I know it would have made my mom sad too, my mom was a bookwork and that rubbed off on me but my sister didn't like reading and I think that rubbed off on my niece.
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I have to admit I was never a fan of the books or show
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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Figgy1 said:
I have to admit I was never a fan of the books or show
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We didn't have many channels as a kids so watching the show was just something we did as a family, but it wasn't my favorite. The first few books of the series I enjoyed. I think I liked the first book was the best because it was set in my area and we read it in 4th grade as part of our Wisconsin history unit. At one point in the book they have "ice cream" which was snow with maple syrup and for our 4th grade unit we made ice cream and put maple syrup on it after reading the book so I think that is why that book stand out to me as good...because of the ice cream! :D
 
Tony the Tigger

Tony the Tigger

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ajrwdwgirl said:
Usually when I get ice cream, which isn't often anymore, I lean towards the chocolate flavors. But occasionally I'll get a scoop of maple nut and I remember how good that flavor combo is.
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I am weird with chocolate, although not as bad as when I was a kid. Never liked chocolate ice cream. Now I can tolerate it but wouldn’t get it on purpose. Chocolate pudding? Sure! Especially blended with whipped cream to make mousse. Choc chip cookies? Yep. Choc cookies? Meh.

We almost always had only vanilla in the house. I’d add either fudge, syrup, or honey to it sometimes. Hated when mom bought Neapolitan! Don’t get a drop of chocolate in my vanilla lol - or those red bits from the strawberry. 👎🏻

Now…banana fudge ice cream is 🙌🏼
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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Tony the Tigger said:
I am weird with chocolate, although not as bad as when I was a kid. Never liked chocolate ice cream. Now I can tolerate it but wouldn’t get it on purpose. Chocolate pudding? Sure! Especially blended with whipped cream to make mousse. Choc chip cookies? Yep. Choc cookies? Meh.

We almost always had only vanilla in the house. I’d add either fudge, syrup, or honey to it sometimes. Hated when mom bought Neapolitan! Don’t get a drop of chocolate in my vanilla lol - or those red bits from the strawberry. 👎🏻

Now…banana fudge ice cream is 🙌🏼
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As a kid my mom often bought chocolate chip, tin roof sundae or Neapolitan (and I hated strawberry). I think that was the only flavors that came in the big gallons that weren't just vanilla. My best ice cream memory is when my great-grandfather was sent to the grocery store to pick up some ice cream and he brought me along. On the way home we stopped at the park and he opened up a container of Rocky Road he got for just us and we ate it in the park and kept it a secret. So I Rocky Road always tops the list of my favorites.

The banana fudge flavor you mentioned sounds really good.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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ajrwdwgirl said:
I couldn't understand why she didn't like the books either. I grew up reading them and watching the shows too. The first book was actually my favorite, probably because it was set in Wisconsin. I think the Laura Ingalls museum you went to was in South Dakota, a teacher I worked with went there a few years ago and I remember him talking about it. My niece might think she is too old for the series now, she's almost 17 and very much a cool teen. Sadly she isn't much of a reader, her mom isn't either. That makes me sad and I know it would have made my mom sad too, my mom was a bookwork and that rubbed off on me but my sister didn't like reading and I think that rubbed off on my niece.
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She might come to love it later. I was never a big reader until after college. It always took me so long to read because of my dyslexia, so it was hard for me. But I remember my junior year, our English teacher divided us into 3 groups, by level, and each group was assigned a book. The lower level readers got Ordinary People, the middle level got The Scarlet Letter, and then I had to read the most boring book ever written, Moby Di*k. Awful awful awful book. But that's the thing...I always got stuck reading things I didn't like. My class LOVED Last of the Mohicans, but it was too graphic for me. It kind of turned me off reading...the amount of time it took to read stuff I didn't like. Now I love to read, but I get to pick out my own books and there's no time restriction. Your niece just needs to find the book that gets her into it where she wants to read more. Then she'll look for more like that, and then eventually branch out. I started out reading a couple of cheesy romances and found one that was historical fiction romance and then I started reading more historical fiction and also non-fiction like biographies or books about historical events like the holocaust, etc. And I read something that was fantasy with some romance, and I liked that, so I started reading more fantasy. It just kind of snowballed and now I read just about everything except horror/thrillers. I'll read memoirs, fantasy, crime, romance, biographies, historical fiction, non-fiction, some sci-fi, dystopian novels....whatever. Don't give up on her yet. What are her hobbies? If you find some books that correspond with that, it might spark her interest.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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ajrwdwgirl said:
As a kid my mom often bought chocolate chip, tin roof sundae or Neapolitan (and I hated strawberry). I think that was the only flavors that came in the big gallons that weren't just vanilla. My best ice cream memory is when my great-grandfather was sent to the grocery store to pick up some ice cream and he brought me along. On the way home we stopped at the park and he opened up a container of Rocky Road he got for just us and we ate it in the park and kept it a secret. So I Rocky Road always tops the list of my favorites.

The banana fudge flavor you mentioned sounds really good.
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My mom always got Neopolitan and I liked the chocolate but not strawberry, and my brother liked the strawberry but not the chocolate, so I ate the chocolate, he ate the strawberry, and mom ate the vanilla.

It was so cool yesterday....I heard Turkey in the Straw playing, which is weird because it's an American folk song, and why the heck was it playing here? And it sounded like an ice cream truck! But I didn't think those existed anymore, and I had never heard of them in the Netherlands....I know Rupert Grint bought an ice cream truck, but I had never heard of them being anywhere else in Europe. I thought it was mostly an iconic American thing.

I was heading out for my walk, so I went downstairs and Turkey in the Straw got louder. I go and look out of the mail slot, and there's an ice cream truck!! So we went and got Ice cream. It looked brand new, so I'm betting someone made an investment because of Corona....all the restaurants and everything have been closed. If people can't come to your store, bring your store to the people. He did a good business, too....half the street was out there.

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