Grandma Alley

While visiting Grandma Alley two weeks ago, we were talking as we weeded her roses. I asked her about the day she fell in her yard and broke her hip. I asked her if she was in a lot of pain. She said she had to stay very still. Any movement caused a lot of pain. She couldn't move and could only lay there and call for help. Here's the amazing thing. As she lay there, instead of thinking about how much pain she was in or focusing on whether she would be heard and found, she began thinking about her yard. She pondered on her surroundings and how grateful she was to be surrounded by such beauty. She is a wonderful example for us.

Learning To Ride A Bike

When Dad and I were at Josh and Jaime's, he was teaching Tess how to ride her bike. What are your memories of learning to ride your bike?

Witchcraft

I was just sitting here in my office (my bed) with my computer on my lap typing up a comment to a student in one of the hundreds of discussion boards I have to participate in each week. So, as I'm sitting here, Jaime comes up and sits down next to me. And I look over at her and keep looking while typing up my message. She kind of laughed at that and pointed it out to me.

It reminded me of a time when I was a kid and was convinced that Mom had superpowers. I am pretty sure we were living in Indiana, but I could be wrong about that. So, she was typing away at something, and I think I was running up to tell her something. And when I approached, she turned her head to look at me, and she just kept typing along on the keyboard. I'm pretty sure we had a 20 minute conversation and she never stopped typing or looked back at the computer...that may be a little bit of an exaggeration on the time there. But it was the most amazing thing I had seen up to that point in my life! And I was a little convinced that there was some sort of witchcraft involved because how could that be possible?!

Speaking of early computers...anyone else have fond memories of Dig Dug and Centipede? Or maybe really resentful memories about when you were about to get a high score in a game and your bratty little brother ruined it for you because it was his turn to play...and he turned off the computer or something horrible like that? You don't remember that? Good. Let's just forget I said anything then.

Soapity Soap

 

I'm sure you all saw this on the Facebook, but I'm not going to ask if you remember how awesome I was growing up with my art, basketball skills and good looks. We definitely all remember that the same way.

The main point is--does anyone else remember this soap growing up? I had forgotten about this stuff until I pulled out this painting. I am 73% sure this is what gave me eczema. Ha! Just kidding, Mom. I'm not kidding, guys. I put this in a smaller font assuming Mom and Dad's poor eyesight couldn't read it.This stuff was the worst, right? I think maybe the only thing worse was showering at Grandma Alley's and not even being able to get the soap off because of the low water pressure.

Josh says we ate rice and milk once a week for 20 years. I don't believe this. In Idaho--yes. I have very few memories of IN. In KY it was fried rice once a week--not rice and milk.

Wales

Once upon a time, Mom decided she was going to educate us on our ancestry after finding a documentary at the library about Wales. I remember being at the library or perhaps at home when she told me that she had gotten this movie about Wales. I don't know why, but I got pretty excited about it. So, she turned it on and we sat through the whole darn thing, and not once did they make any mention of any majestic mammoth sea mammals. This is why I don't know why I got excited to watch it because I have never in my life been interested in the ocean or fish or dolphins or sea animals. Well, except manatees--my 3rd grade (?) class adopted one. So, I thought Mom had gotten this documentary on whales and it sounded so great to me for some reason. By the end of the documentary on Wales, I was completely confused by the whole thing. We came from whales?

I was not a small child when this happened. Sometimes it is hard being so smart.

Cymraeg!!!

Ice Cream Pizza

I'm not sure why I was thinking of this, but I needed help remembering what happened.

So it was during the time that Ice Cream Cookie Pizzas were becoming pretty popular.  I know at one time Erin, maybe Josh and myself decided we wanted to make our own.  So we walked to the Food Lion to buy the ingredients.

Questions
1)  Why did we walk?
2)  Did we walk back?
3)  How did the ice cream not melt if we walked back?
4)  Food Lion is a bit of a walk, what were we thinking???
5)  Did this actually happen or was it just a dream?