REMEMBER WHEN-
we came
to Texas?
we all
stayed in two rooms at the Howard Johnson motel and we hardly got to use the
pool because it rained so much?
REMEMBER WHEN-
we all
lived in six rooms on Kimberly Street and it seemed like we could never get
away from each other because the walls were so thin?
how good
it was to move into town so we didn’t have so much driving to do, and how good
it was to s-t-r-e-t-c-h out and have room, and/or privacy whichever one wanted?
how small
the crabapple trees were in the bac yard in 1971? Bet you don’t. It is hard to imagine unless you see a photo.
we had
a party and the children got to choose the families and we had the Gores and Voyles
and Lovetts and …and gosh, I don’t remember who all. It was a houseful!
Mom and
Dad decided to have a party for the kids and we made an individual invitation
for each one and we moved the table into the den and served you dinner?
the night
we Phantomed the Hendricks and almost got caught and the Brinks Phantomed the
Hendricks and DID get caught? And then
the Brinks came to tell us about it and we thought it was so funny?
how Rick
said the prayer that night and at the end he said bless that nobody will find
out that we are the Family Nite Phantom?
And it was hard to keep from laughing?
And after he said, “Amen, we laughed –and he said I saved that until the
end because I knew everyone would laugh! And we laughed some more.
we had
that toaster that wouldn’t pop up and Judy put the toast in and we went to
Sunday School, and then she remembered the toast and had to call our neighbor
to go save the house from burning down?
the high
priests put in the new kitchen floor?
Mike
getting stuck in the laundry chute?
the four
youngest would get out the Fisher-Price people and the Hot Wheels and the
Childcraft and the “maze rug” and make up stories and build all over the den?
the pie
cherry tree and the pies we used to have?
how Dad
made sure everybody was up, with socks on, and we had to line up on the stairs
for Christmas morning—youngest first, of course.
Robin,
Valerie, and Lynette played Beat the Car at night? (Don’t tell Mom the details!) And they taught Rick and Scott?
Todd
and Mike used to jump off the garage roof onto pillows and Mom thought it was
normal and Dad thought it was horrible?
And years later Rick and Scott practiced for the Egg Drop from the
upstairs window? (Lose more eggs that
way.)
Mom and Dad moved to the downstairs rooms, and Dad had to paint the louvered shutters---Well, maybe some things are better NOT remembered?
REMEMBER WHEN-
we
had all those Family Home Evening Theatres?
We had “judges” who were special guests and they had to perform too?
REMEMBER WHEN-
we did “A Day in the Life of Hamlet’? And probably our most famous case “The Case of the Missing Case?”
REMEMBER WHEN-
Todd made a bedroom in the attic, complete with floor and light?
REMEMBER WHEN-
Mom opened up the drawer in the bathroom and there were baby squirrels? And remember when Joe Lockwood cut the squirrel out of our closet? And he was so paranoid he set for three days in the corner of the front porch (the squirrel, not Joe!
REMEMBER WHEN-
Thanks for the memories, for all the fun we’ve had…
Postscript by Judy: How did this list not include the bees in the upper back siding--that was memorable as well!
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