These are of bits and pieces of my life. Snipets of memory. I write them down as they come to me. Just a few words written quickly. Haphazardly. Theres no order and my spelling doesn’t count.
Klondike bars
With kristi
Mom and dads bed
Nature shows
Eating like an animal
Caldors
Baskin Robbins
Rum raisin
Heavenly hash
Cassette tape
Halloween sounds and spooky stories
Homemade popcorn balls
Apples and peanut butter
Bert and Ernie
Monday afternoons
Childhood bliss
First grade
Warm autumn air
Swings next to the school
The side playground
Thinking about the houses behind us
Ladyfingers
It seemed that growing up my mom
Was always looking for ladyfingers
Sending us to find them, disappointed when we didn’t
Confections, concoctions and cake
To this day, whenever I find them in the store
I can’t help but smile, “found them mom!”
Smells like ivory soap
We were so little
Mom singing
“There’s a new little baby in our house
And she’s cute as cute can be
There’s a new little baby in our house
And she belongs to Kym kerri and kristi
Dickie and to me”
Warm days
Bare-feet turned cold by water
The smell of Chlorine
The sound of an ice cream truck, Kids playing
Swatting mosquitoes
Empty peanut butter jars turned terrarium
Moving rocks
Catching crayfish
Bliss
Late July - summer at the pond
Wooden spoons
Mixing bowls
Flour, eggs milk
Summer mornings
Winter afternoons
Weekends
Weekdays
home made jams and sweet jellies
Cinnamon
Sugar
And sometimes peanut butter
But always butter
My mom made roll’em up pancakes
That’s fancy for “crepes”
As many as we could eat!
It was and will always be a favorite
I miss it terribly and what I wouldn’t give for
just one more “roll’em up pancake ❤️
Teaching me that a little mustard can be a good thing
Lucky charms and strawberries is like magic
BBQ sauce doesn’t have to be spicy
And that global table is never a good thing
Warm days
Bare-feet turned cold by water
The smell of Chlorine
The sound of an ice cream truck, Kids playing
Swatting mosquitoes
Empty peanut butter jars turned terrarium
Moving rocks
Catching crayfish
Bliss
Late July - summer at the pond
Wooden spoons
Mixing bowls
Flour, eggs milk
Summer mornings
Winter afternoons
Weekends
Weekdays
home made jams and sweet jellies
Cinnamon
Sugar
And sometimes peanut butter
But always butter
My mom made roll’em up pancakes
That’s fancy for “crepes”
As many as we could eat!
It was and will always be a favorite
I miss it terribly and what I wouldn’t give for
just one more “roll’em up pancake ❤️
Teaching me that a little mustard can be a good thing
Lucky charms and strawberries is like magic
BBQ sauce doesn’t have to be spicy
And that global table is never a good thing
For the longest time, I thought the best way to “catch” a man is to make him a good meal. I was so clueless
Preschool memory
Water table
Snacks in brown paper bags
Cheese crackers and Juice in little wax paper cups
Mrs Elniki
Slumber parties
Sleep overs
Pizza from Jangos
The best make your own Sunday’s ever
Renting movies from block buster or the video store near the old grand union
Scary movies like “April’s fools day”and dads forever eternal question of, “Is it a new movies,”
Playing Joust upstairs in mom & dads room
Slumber parties
Sleep overs
Pizza from Jangos
The best make your own Sunday’s ever
Renting movies from block buster or the video store near the old grand union
Scary movies like “April’s fools day”and dads forever eternal question of, “Is it a new movies,”
Playing Joust upstairs in mom & dads room
Playing zork and getting scared in there too
Thanksgiving dilly rolls
Mom waking up early to get the turkey on
Dad working on keeping us warm
Complaints of “pie crusts”
My sisters and i polishing the silverware from the fancy wooden chest
Moms big turkey platter
Homemade whipped cream
Seeking out a great restaurant
Buying me a corsage
You were so sweet
And it was only our third date
One of my favorite memories
Sitting in the living room
Playing with blocks
Mom & dad talking
Telling me, my block castle was amazing and that I was talented
Playing my first MMORPG game, Meridian with my dad
Thanksgiving dilly rolls
Mom waking up early to get the turkey on
Dad working on keeping us warm
Complaints of “pie crusts”
My sisters and i polishing the silverware from the fancy wooden chest
Moms big turkey platter
Homemade whipped cream
Seeking out a great restaurant
Buying me a corsage
You were so sweet
And it was only our third date
One of my favorite memories
Sitting in the living room
Playing with blocks
Mom & dad talking
Telling me, my block castle was amazing and that I was talented
Playing my first MMORPG game, Meridian with my dad
Childhood birthdays
Skateway & grand union
Pick ups and drop off
February 9th skating rink
Cold air and crunchy snow
Mom made cupcakes
Candy hearts
covered under a sheet of foil
Lacing skates & shoe leather
popcorn
Hot dogs & spilt soda
Birthday candles & chocolate cake
Giant hand puppets & plushie skates
“Honk before you go through”
honk the horn near the railroad tracks
Duckweed, frogs toads and salamanders
Long poles with small nets
Barefoot in the reeds
earth touched algae, moss covered rocks
Fearing the dam and what might happen if I fell in
The smell of summer. Coconut scented sun tan lotion and Shasta soda
Hunting for salamanders and catching frogs
Everyones second best favorite- Earl reservoir
Mom taking us in the car
Making up stories
giant spiders And killer squirrels
Shooting them down with finger “guns”
Regretting letting my relationship with my dad get so bad
Regretting letting my relationship with my dad get so bad
Playing the game make me laugh
The cool stone steps of the church basement
Roller racers in the parking lot
Pink huffy bikes
The cool stone steps of the church basement
Roller racers in the parking lot
Pink huffy bikes
Building a fort behind the church
Every holiday and sometimes for “Saturday night special”
My mom would make her famous, “Rumyaki”
Steak, pineapple and sauce! Sometimes with a side of rice and often served in small glass bowls.
One of my favorites!
Turning the forsythia bush into a fort
Bringing lily of the valley bouquets to favorite teachers
Still new
Jim & I
closing my eyes
A Touch of his cheek
memorizing his face with My fingers
The tree house that mom made
Summer afternoon
Dads at work
Tools and found wood
Turning a tree into a treehouse
Dad got home
How, what, when?
Dumbfounded
Hugs for everyone
Home
Cold snowy mornings
WHUD - Monroe Woodbury no school
Playing with barbies in the living room
Mom making macaroni & cheese for lunch
Hand drawn Birthday banners stretched out across the wooden cupboard
My dad getting me a special valentines day plant
Birthday dinners, hero sandwiches and moms meatballs
Baked Alaska and heart shaped birthday cakes
Hand drawn Birthday banners stretched out across the wooden cupboard
My dad getting me a special valentines day plant
Birthday dinners, hero sandwiches and moms meatballs
Baked Alaska and heart shaped birthday cakes
Listening to WHUD in January
Waiting for the dj to announce
Monroe Woodbury school districts
Closed
Any day that the school was closed
Was a good day
Field trips
American heroes from jays deli
a hostess cupcake & a bag of chips
A note from mom
“I love you.”
Jersey Shore
Hotel on the beach
Upstairs room
Cold fried chicken
We were allowed to pick out a special dessert.
We were allowed to pick out a special dessert.
Pepperidge Farm Coconuf Cake
Sunrises & sunsets
Looking for shells
Sunrises & sunsets
Looking for shells
Kym slept in the bathtub
Getting bikes at Joes Fixit
Regretting the reason why my mom broke her leg
Knowing that I can’t take it back
Still crying about it
Halloween butterfly costume
Orange & black candies
Elementary school
Most favorite Bear costume
Man on hunter street who made you tell
A joke too in order to get Halloween candy
The year dad painted a piece of cardboard black or Grey and he went as “a wall.”
Mom always making special food for every holiday
Chicken costume costume
Dad memory
Hanging off a tree to steal fruit out of truck
Moms pop pop story
Pop iPod would sit next to his fridge
And still make mom get up to get him a drink from the fridge
Bike riding with dad
Trail behind tracks
Lush and green
Dad would wait because I went slow
Point out trees
Birds singing
Tall grass hitting our knees
The sound of a stream
Olive Garden
Teaching you manners
Being surprised that you already knew them
Even then you were so perfect
My light
Summertime
Mom snapping beans in the kitchen
Windows are open
I’m asking for a snack
Planting
old boards across be garden beds
Watch for weeds
Finger length holes in the dirt
Giant pink and white bean seeds
Drop the seed and plant another
Lunch at mall in nj
Mom & pop pop
Same restaurant every time
Finding dad on the mail route
Forgotten lunch
Mom & pops house
Nj
Red brick house
Liverwurst
Crumb cake
3rd grade
Shoe tying
Dad teaching
Wood stove is warm
Watching tadpoles
Kissing you in the rain
Nothing else mattered
Hudson highlands
Birthday parties
Volunteering
Crow snuck in the bathroom
End of school year parties
Egg toss
Hot dogs
Pools of green jello
Water balloons
Powdered donut
Hanging out in mom and dads room to watch tv. Mom always smelled like ivory soap. Ivory now reminds me of her.
One time we were watching the muppets show, dad snuck out and bought neopolitan ice cream. It was a surprise!!
Amish country
All you can eat Amish food
Fire works
Cold pool water
Hotel & a white picket fence
School
Hiding out in the nurses office or sitting in back of the school library, hiding from the world
Cafeteria had the best chicken patty sandwiches ever!!
circling the food that I liked on the school cafeteria calendar
Christmas
Growing up dad would come home on Christmas with all these cards and packages filled with cookies and candies from the mail route. We would put them on the middle of the kitchen table and open all of them while sampling some of the goodies that people made. The wood stove was warm and we were all happy, there was a buzz of excitement and I loved every second of it
Washington DC
I ate my lunch before we left highland mills
Smithsonium museum
Air & space museum
Days inn
North Carolina
Mom and pop gave us cabbage patch kids
Discovery zone
Days inn
Kristi holding walking sticks
Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches
Kids menu
We all wanted lobster
Crafting in the kitchen
mom &dads house,
my back getting warm by the wood stove
The kitchen smells like warm stew
Vacation bible school
Eating cookies in the white trailer
Small paper cups
Warm apple juice
The smell of pink bubble gum
Comics in the wrapper
Bazooka joe
skate way
Spilled Popcorn and hotdogs
The small kids rink at the one side of the roller rink
Ladies skate
Couples skate
Dj was cool
80’s the music
Playing “animal rescue” games at the apple tree near the streaM in the woods
Being a junior lifeguard st the pond and reservoir.
Camping at the pond, covered in ketchup and mustard.
Camp fire and lifeguards trying to jump out of the woods to scare us
Roller racers in the church parking lot, playing the game “make me laugh.”
Roller racers in the ccd building for a haunted house.
The carnival swe threw in the church parking lot
My bear costume
my mummy costum
Walking around elementary school in monarch butterfly costume
Going trick or treating in the elementary school
The harvest fair, winning “fish” and the Fresh Food buffet
Talking to Mrs Liles about nature end the nature camp in main and the terrarium
Waiting for the ice cream man at the pond
The cold floors and hot air of the pavilion
Arts & crafts
The smell of burnt grass, sun screen & chlorine
Knock hockey
Barefoot and looking for something crayfish on the creek
Capture the flag games
Wet towels
Marco Polo on the raft
Dibble dabble sticks
Remember the secret path from the pond to the commons, Kym would take it to work when she was working at the commons.
Lifeguards making noise pretending to be monsters
Synchro show
Fancy bathing suits
Animal auctions
One Halloween we got a bunch of pumpkins
We carved them on the brown deck.
Barbara memory
Tying pop pajama pants in knots
Foyer with mailbox, color picture
Hide them around foyer and tell everyone
They have mail
Mom waking me up early in the morning,
It was dark out. She showed me the morning star. Every time I wake up early just to find the morning star
Mom & dad
Cape Ann
Elephant ears
