"going on a rabbit trail"
"mouthwash bottles in the parental's bathroom"
"Doah, Nettie Boo, Boo, Nee Nee, Ray"
"You pretty thing you"
"Going to the beauty parlor"
IHOP
Sweet Tomatoes
Monterey
Mt. Hermon
Michael W. Smith
singing hymns at six in the morning and Mom starting the first note
Christian Bale
Saturns
An overabundance of plants
Fig Newtons
Cold grilled cheese sandwiches up in Raymond
Exact change down to the cent
Causing men to "stumble"
The "candy man" at the Rescue Mission
Thousands of trips to Orchards
Bagel Basket
Home made popcorn with spray "I can't believe it's not butter"
Listening to hours on end of Adventures in Odyssey up to Canada
Dr. Sheldon
Watching CMTV (Christian Music Television) and Lawerance Welk on Saturday evenings
Costco size Tampax boxes
Pardinis
Laura holding her breath until she passes out
Touched By An Angel and Promised Land
"Mac-a-groni"
Additions thanks to sister Whitney:
Water music
Pink sponge curlers
Advent
Bobs Big Boy with Dad
"we dont want any"
Soder (soda)
Dutch blitz
Re-birthdays
Can't count how many so's I love you
Raggedy Ann and Andy
Grin Again Gang Get Gung ho about Jesus
Ginny dolls
GW school supply
Animaniacs
Tents made of blankets and chairs
Moms cranberry salad and bar b q chicken
Chocolate instant pudding
Quiet time
Love it all!!!
Some from the older days...maybe younger ones won't remember as well:
ReplyDelete-Dad staying up all night at Grandma Polly's to finish the Rubix Cube (it was new then!)
-Janice Cochran babysitting which meant Push-Up's and a Strawberry Shortcake movie, and the way her polyester pants made a swish-swish sound as she walked down the hall
-Blanket sleepers
-Sponge curlers
-Nazi swim teacher and jellybeans afterwards on shriveled hands
-blue and white checked car seat covers
-homemade yogurt
-powdered skim milk
-popsicles made of apple juice (circus handles)
-tupperware
-Daddy jumping off diving board and "throwing" us as he jumped
-Marco-Polo
-Sugar- and fat-free pudding
-Bristle blocks
-Cross-stitch
-Nette sucking her thumb with an finger up her nose
-Home births
-Mom's jewelry box, especially the ladybug scatterpins
-Mom's bright yellow dress and matching wedges
-Laying on the red carpeted steps in G&G's old house, watching cartoons
-peanut butter and marshmallow cream sandwiches from Grandpa
and some more cuz I'm crazy like that:
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-"Barney"
-Ray sucking her thumb with her red and white checked little "tie" that had come off her crib bumper
-Mervyns
-Taking Great Bea to the bank
-Great Bea's lemon pound cake
-Great Bea giving us quarter and papers to roll them in
-Splitting our allowances into envelopes for "tithe," "savings" and "spending"
-Saturday morning chores
-the "baby" vacuuming the edges
-timing ourselves cleaning the kitchen at night
-"hospital corners"
-our grandparents jet skiing
-tool boxes of legos
-the tulip tree
-bran chex and cheerios
-the little Raggedy Ann and Andy bowl
-eating veggies for breakfast...or even lunch (Ray)
-chocolate muffins at the mall
-our friend, Pam, in SC
-Princess and Anzac
-Mantuya picking "grubs" (live bettle larvae) out of the grass in front yard and eating them
-Hanes Her Way
-Grandma Polly's Christmas gifts that were sometimes from "Santa," according to the tag, even though she knew full-well we didn't believe in Santa
-The Stewart's legos and water bed
-little leather packs of "2:7" verses with headings like "Assurance of Salvation"
-Great Mom and Aunt Lil's strawberry-themed kitchen
-Apples, apples and apples
-Dad doing mini-New Testament Survey courses on the white board ("Creation, Fall, Flood...")
-Ray's curly ponytails and freckles
-French braiding every single one of your heads some Sunday mornings
-Frozen vegetable mix
-"O.J."
-Daddy walking in the door and rolling his sleeves up to start dishes, his tie thrown over one shoulder
-Horse-play on the floor with Daddy in the evenings (especially when he was "the lion" and would tickle us if we crossed the "line")
-those damn blue and read hymn books
-Global Prayer Digest and the map with the colored pins representing missionaries we prayed for
-hazy middle-of-the-night memories of Mama in the rocker, nursing whoever the baby was and singing Psalm 23
-turtles
-climbing on rocks in the foothils
-Sunday afternoon "drives"
-running through the sprinklers
-white cotton full-slips
-perfect "parts" in our hair
-the taste of Mama's lipstick
-"love you, see you in the morning, have a good night sleep, have sweet happy dreams, I love you, goodnight..." at break-neck, compulsive speed
-Scaring the hell out of Adele in PNG because she was "mean" to Jeanette (Nette got mad at me)
-Pop Pop scaring the hell out of some boys on Ray's bus
-bike rides
-hot chocolate in the red and green handled tupperware "camping cups"
-Advent
-the candle snuffer
-Mama's tears at Daddy's cards, every time
-Making all of you grilled cheese on that huge plug-in grill thing, then cutting into triangles or squares or whatever you guys ordered
-singing "Jesus Loves Me" every night
-Aunt Doris' brown bread baked in a tin can
-Aunt Beverly's cats
-matching dresses, and more often, jumpers
-tights that either needed to be pulled up to your nipples or sag down to your knees
-black patent shoes
-white patent shoes (starting at Easter)
-playing "dots" during church on the program
-Mom's "you better be quiet" look in church
-Bible drills
-macaroni and cheese on the nights Daddy was doing "rounds"
-bookshelves made out of wood planks and cinder blocks
-somebody holding your ponytail when you threw up
-dad's car "warming up" in the driveway on winter mornings
-lots of red dresses
oh wow...there's so many...
oh some more....
ReplyDelete-Aldo's and dad sketching farms on the back of menu
-Laura Joy up on David's shoulders
-themed birthday parties, mostly pulled off by ME, once I was old enough
-Mama scratching the edge of a diaper pin in her scalp to "oil" it before sticking in the cloth diaper
-Rubber pants
-The wooden spoon, the flat paddle and later, THE SPANKER
-standing in adjacent corners, trying not laugh at one another
-little white button-up sweaters
-jansport backpacks
-homemade bread (no breadmaker...PANS)
-backyard vegetable gardens
-Mom eating cherry tomatoes off the vine
-piano lessons (the Alfred series over and over and OVER)
-Ray's stint with the violin
-Nette's epic "strong-willed-child" stand-offs
-Laura waking up with peas in her mouth
-Whitney's cuddliness
-BANGS
-Cutting your hair
-Grosgrain ribbons in our ponytails
-Drawing rows of "princesses" in hoop skirts
-Good-bye kisses every morning, no matter what