These are of bits and pieces of my life. Snipets of memor, both good and bad. I write them down as they come to me. Just a few words written quickly. Haphazardly. Theres no order, nor reason and spelling doesn’t count.
Some days I can’t tell if it’s the first day of summer or the last day of October. I’m buzzing inside and everything feels like a party
Me
Childhood
The pond
Dusk
With mom and maybe my sisters
The best cheeseburger I’ve ever eaten
Playing animal rescue games
scrambling around the little apple tree in the woods behind our house
It was right by the little stream
that flowed behind the barn
Aunt Pam
Used to bring me stamps
From Nepera Chemicals
Childhood
Steaming
Cutting
Stamps
For my collection
Dad
Lunch time
Corned beef in a can
Miracle whip
White bread
And sometimes
A snowball
During the age of elementary
Late Spring
Summer
Early Fall
Exploring
Wandering
Backyard swamps
Hopping over
Climbing around
Sitting on giant clumps of plants
Twisting and braiding
The long blades of grass
Pretending it was a hair salon
Playing
Singing birds
The sweet smell of clean dirt
PBS phreak
Quick visit
Toronto
Crappy dance club
His moms magazine color
purple house
Disappeared
Mental home
Dial tone
Not my memory
But one of Jim’s
Jimmy
Kindergarten
Confusion
Hey Teacher
Where is my cubby hole?
Your name is James
James Peter
She said
And he learned his name
Hudson highlands
Saturday mornings
Childhood
Volunteer
The owls that fainted
Talking crows
Box turtles and frog habitats
Ducks waddle
Under the bathroom stall
Because you're depressed they said
Because don't smile like you used too
Less judge
More love
I was 11 I think?
Third grade
Fourth grade
First kiss
Corey hogsthurst?
First name is correct
Last is close
His mom came home
And I was toast!
She yelled
I ran home
And never spoke of it again.
1st grade
Maybe 2nd
Central valley elementary
I waited for kimberlite
In the cafeteria
I forced myself to eat slow
Slow
Slower
Just so I could eat lunch with her
Ah sisters..
Baked Alaska
Special birthday
Clown parades
Learning the circus
Performing ss a clown
Hot summers
Walking parades
Red noses bled
Melting
Onto white cheeks
Heat stroke summer
Clown parades
The best kind of parade
Where did my dad keep his old uniforms?
Above the upstairs bathroom.
More on this later.
Christmas
Childhood
Heart awakens
Santa
Family
Grandmas house
Breakfast
Mcdonalds gift certificates
But when I'm 20?
Not mine, but my mother's
Wore gardenia to the prom
Danced with flowers
The scent remains
Sometimes on Saturdays
Childhood
Walking into soatewat
Handing them crumpled up dollar bills
Telling them my suzlacimg up skates the smell of popcorn and soda
Loud 80’s pop music
Holding onto the carpeted guard rails
Getting my footing
People spin past me
I go slow
Try not to fall
A few hours past
Mom finds us
Until next Saturday
Special of course
Christmas caroling
Papers of sheet music
Cold noses
Warm hot chocolate
Silent night
And always out of tune
Orange Plaza
Caldors
Scary haunted Halloween cassette tape
Mom is paying bill
Always baskin Robbin’s
Elementary School
Saturday afternoon
Moving small rocks from the large rock pile in the drive way
Dad is teaching us old marching songs from the Marine Corps
All PG of course
Friday nights - anytime if the year
Mario’s
Sitting in the couch
Watching cops with mom
Chicken Frances and rigatoni
Pizza with peppers, sometimes mushrooms
- extra cheese please
Tiramisu, cannolis and napoleons
Warm summer nights
Frosty winters
Pizza box humidity
Payday
Everyone’s favorite night of the week
Cotton candy
Popcorn
Sausage and peppers
Fancy lights
And soda stands
County fairs
Summertime carnivals
Family time and holding hands
It was a yearly treat
And we went to them all
Grahamsville
Ulster
Orange and
Sussex too
Belt booths
Hat stands
Sales on whatnot
Tshirts and disc man’s
Pamphlet pavilions
Free swag and stickers
Cable tv or satellite sound?
Solar power
Clean water
It’s good for the ground.
.
“Do you want one?”
“Here take one”
“Hey! Look at me”
I’m only 12.
There’s miles of canvas
Fresh manure, hot pavements
4-H and Ferris wheels
A pavilion of cows
The Kiwanis yell, “BBQ chicken! We have dark meat!
Church tents of burgers, god bless you. Don’t forget the fries
Ghost trains and neons Screams
Mirrored mazes and an alpine slide
I was there,
All in it.
Takings it in
Learning in stride.
I remember the foot traffic
The cherry dips and Funnel cake
Amish donuts
Wine stands and beer gardens
Gunning the engines and cheers from the crowd
Joys of laughter
Me, I’m 11
Maybe 12
We went every year
My family
Those times, that pavement
Ferris Wherls l
Memory.
Sitting in the grass
With mom, kym and kristi
Making flower chains with dandelions and bugle weed.
Sweet summers
Life was free
My mom:
One of my moms memories
Babysitting uncle Markie
At the Jersey shore and baiting hooks
Sand worm bites
Days spend
A letter to my dad reguarding a future family trip to the Virginia shore 8/9/22
Are you ready for next week?
Fishy!
Oh fishy!
Here little fishy, fishy!
Hahah!
What kind of lures are you bringing? Do you have a pole to use off the shore?
You know, I have a memory of us going to the Jersey shore when we were kids.
I remember you fishing from the shore. I remember watching you and I remember How peaceful you looked. It was a moment where everything was perfect. The sun was setting and The waves were low and a bit choppy. The sun was setting. Everything was quiet and still. It was a serene moment and I remember it like yesterday.
You had the long end of the surf caster stuck in the sand and a beer was next to you. Every so often you’d break that silence, wade out a little, cast and then go back to your vigil. In that moment, I don’t think it was about fishing, it was simply about being.
We’ve stayed at the shore a few times and we always stayed at the same little hotel. This place was right next to the sand dunes and our room was always on the 2nd floor.
Mom brought snacks and homemade fried chicken, she once got us each a little Pepperidge Farms cake, they were frozen. I remember you picked out coconut…
Summeer
Front yard
Mixing muffins
Dusting treasures
Sitting in the shade
Kym sells potholders
Mom sells blueberry muffins
Waiting for customers
Garage sale Saturday’s
Aldo cacciole
Threw kyms crest big wheel
into the creek near Adams street
Dad saved the big wheel
Sunday morning
Record player
Oh what a beautiful morning plays
I’m asking for it to be played again and again
Moms in the kitchen
Dads in the garden
Happiness grows here
I’m a child
Someone playing with my toes
This little piggy went to the market
This littie piggy stayed home
This littl piggy had roast beef
This little piggy had none
This little piggy went wee wee wee all the way home
I’m young
My dad playing his guitar
He was wearing a turtle neck
Scratchy brown plaid couch
He was playing softly
I was listening
Saturday’s
Driving to Jersey
A visit to “mom” and “pops” house
Kym & Kristi sitting beside me
Sharing sips from the same can of soda
We’ve entered a land of hummels
Their house smells of coffee and cake
Rye bread and liverwurst
Mom misses them
Bowl-O-Fun
Bowling and bumper lanes
Soda and popcorn
Family & birthdays
Weekend afternoons
I was never good at it
But damn it was fun!
Young
Kristi & I
Running around the dining room table
Mom telling us to stop
Kristi falls
Bites her lip
Whenever mom would make us fish for dinner, we were always told “watch out for bones!” And given a slice of bread. I still don’t understand the bread part, but it’s a find and funny memory of mine.
I was spit on, yelled at, tripped and
pushed down stairs during my teenage years at school.
My sister Kym was very popular. It was At school I was known
as ”Kim’s sister.”
It was ironic twist of fate I was spit on, yelled at, tripped and
Pushed down stairs and out of moving cars at home
By Kym.
Proudly Making the junior varsity volleyball team. Only to find out,
I made the team due to Kym being a star athlete on the varsity team
She had been For the previous years. They expected me to be the Same.
I am a different person.
I quit the team.
Watching “The monkees ” with Kristi
Dancing around the room
It was one of Kristi’s favorites
My first sleep over
We ate pizza
Jean Seals house
Mom got me a special red & white striped nightgown
I felt special and it was really nice
End of school year parties
Kids and us
Make your own Sunday’s
Hot dogs
Bus sing a longs of sha an na na & hey hey hey’d
My mom waving
Dj’d Dance parties and kyms birthday came later
Bagelewhiches - American combo style were the best!
Make your own Sunday’s
Hot dogs
Bus sing a longs of sha an na na & hey hey hey’d
My mom waving
Dj’d Dance parties and kyms birthday came later
Bagelewhiches - American combo style were the best!
Bringing my grandma a gift
Jars of gypsy moth caterpillars
She pretended to like it
Growing up
After dinner
Sometimes before lunch
My parents playing records
45’s
78’s
Dancing around the dining room
Trying to keep up
Spinning and twirling
clapping to the beat
Singing along
This is my family
This is my happy place
Ocean air
Summer vacation
Boardwalk
Stale ketchup and mini golf
Midway rides
Dad and his fried clams
Mom and skeeball
Ticket prize glory
The pond after hours
Crowds were gone
Wading in the cool water
Mom being there made it Magical
Pizza or burgers
The days Laughter going down
Growing up
After dinner
Sometimes before lunch
My parents playing records
45’s
78’s
Dancing around the dining room
Trying to keep up
Spinning and twirling
clapping to the beat
Singing along
This is my family
This is my happy place
Ocean air
Summer vacation
Boardwalk
Stale ketchup and mini golf
Midway rides
Dad and his fried clams
Mom and skeeball
Ticket prize glory
Summer dance
The pond
Learning to dance alone
Perfume and chlorine
Waiting for mom
a happy wave
Sometimes dad
Pick us up behind the pond
By the big rocks
Always by the big rock
The great Summers of hope
The pond after hours
Crowds were gone
Wading in the cool water
Mom being there made it Magical
Pizza or burgers
The days Laughter going down
the sunset right behind it
Groos shoe store
Monroe
Between the Twin lakes and the lumber yard
White sneakers & Buster browns
Keds I think
Blessed with big feet
Nothing ever fit
Joes Fixit
First bikes
Mountain bikes
And every bike sincerity’s I am a frrr tree t
Ice skates
Roller skate
Dancing
Dining rooms and record players
Mom and dad
Dad & mom
Doo wop and folk
Show tunes and old country
Mom telling us about the waltz with pop pop
Leading and following
Right after Saturday n ugh special
Sometime in between
My teenage years
Watching “Brain Games” on HBO
Eating a turkey sandwich
Giving myself a silent “pat on the back” every time I got one right
- Brain Games is now over -
Fathers Day, Dads birthday. Dads day
before amazon
Mom, kristi & went to New Windsor
Small red brick house
Nice old man sold nice new flags
A flag for the marines
A flag for history
Just to get something
For my dads something day
My teenaged self waiting for the “Shwanns” man to arrive
Combing thru the catalog
Picking out items & Marking up the pages
Chicken nuggets and breakfast pizzas
Iced cream cones and fruit punch
I loved those deliverie
Saint Patrick’s Church
Before the parking lot
Tree hollows & forts
Wild grapes fresh & tart
Summers and winters
Walking slow around the bend
Charles chips
Pretzels, potato, sour cream
Ridged, crispy or plain
Giant tins
Mustard color tin cans with brown lettering
Nice men in crisp brown uniforms
Delivering once or twice a month
Driving those nice brown trucks
Saturday mornings
Saturday morning cartoons
The brown couch behind us and a rust colored rug beneath us
Mom making us fruit plates
Tree hollows & forts
Wild grapes fresh & tart
Summers and winters
Walking slow around the bend
Charles chips
Pretzels, potato, sour cream
Ridged, crispy or plain
Giant tins
Mustard color tin cans with brown lettering
Nice men in crisp brown uniforms
Delivering once or twice a month
Driving those nice brown trucks
Saturday mornings
Saturday morning cartoons
The brown couch behind us and a rust colored rug beneath us
Mom making us fruit plates
Snacks were a plenty
Happiness
An everyday thought -
Growing fears
Bright yellow school bus
Elementary school getting closer
Reminding me & telling myself school is the temple of doom
Avoiding people is like avoiding the traps
Indiana Jones, kerri adams
Giant rock falling
Getting close to schooL
Giant rock rolling towards me
Avoid the traps - avoid the prople!
Synchronized swimming
Crowds
Lights and sound
Water
Performing in a hot pool
Matching bathing suits
Stoned on chlorine
Music makes it alright
Trying to remember my moves
Pretending to get it right
Finding my family in the bleachers
A smile & a small wave
Take a deep breath
Finding them always makes it right
January
February
The coldest
Darkest months of the year
The crackly sound of a wood stove
Drip drying gloves and snow caked hats
Having just come in from shoveling snow
That great feeling of getting warm again
Sneaking out
Late night
Cold Mid January wanderings
The roads are empty
The town is asleep under a blanket of snow
The sky is full of a thousand stars
I came out here for this
Just to see this
The twinkling blink of stars
A thousand of them
Who knew that this would be the loudest sound, I’d ever hear
A continual reverberation
The sound of silence
School dances
Pre-dance dresses
Hairspray filling the bathroom
Kym telling to “sit like a boy” just so she could do my hair
Mom dropping us off
Bubbling over with excitement
Dim lights in a sweaty gym
Dancing - loving every second of it
Getting lost in the throngs of “after the dance “
Moms wave of a hand - mom found us
Mom always finding us
Behind the elementary school
Behind the Central Valley public library
There’s a giant stream, protected by a chain link fence
Sometimes I’d sneak back there
Catching frogs
Watching turtles
Willing to risk it for an grade school punishment
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
Happiness
An everyday thought -
Growing fears
Bright yellow school bus
Elementary school getting closer
Reminding me & telling myself school is the temple of doom
Avoiding people is like avoiding the traps
Indiana Jones, kerri adams
Giant rock falling
Getting close to schooL
Giant rock rolling towards me
Avoid the traps - avoid the prople!
Synchronized swimming
Crowds
Lights and sound
Water
Performing in a hot pool
Matching bathing suits
Stoned on chlorine
Music makes it alright
Trying to remember my moves
Pretending to get it right
Finding my family in the bleachers
A smile & a small wave
Take a deep breath
Finding them always makes it right
January
February
The coldest
Darkest months of the year
The crackly sound of a wood stove
Drip drying gloves and snow caked hats
Having just come in from shoveling snow
That great feeling of getting warm again
Sneaking out
Late night
Cold Mid January wanderings
The roads are empty
The town is asleep under a blanket of snow
The sky is full of a thousand stars
I came out here for this
Just to see this
The twinkling blink of stars
A thousand of them
Who knew that this would be the loudest sound, I’d ever hear
A continual reverberation
The sound of silence
School dances
Pre-dance dresses
Hairspray filling the bathroom
Kym telling to “sit like a boy” just so she could do my hair
Mom dropping us off
Bubbling over with excitement
Dim lights in a sweaty gym
Dancing - loving every second of it
Getting lost in the throngs of “after the dance “
Moms wave of a hand - mom found us
Mom always finding us
Behind the elementary school
Behind the Central Valley public library
There’s a giant stream, protected by a chain link fence
Sometimes I’d sneak back there
Catching frogs
Watching turtles
Willing to risk it for an grade school punishment
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
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 were dating
I used to close my eyes
And memorize his face with My finger tips.
I never want to forget what he looked like
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
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
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
80’s pop and Trying not to fall
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 and sad
Cape Ann
Elephant ears
——- started this July 29,2019 ———/
——- started this July 29,2019 ———/
Notes:
From mom:
This is the story of our very first Valentine’s Day. We worked together but weren’t dating. I had just broken my engagement and did not have any prospects for any kind of Valentine’s Day. All of a sudden I got a beautiful flower arrangement from a secret admirer. Well there was no stopping me then I went up to Dad and kept telling him he had no valentine and no one would ever send him anything anyway. Kept this up for hours. Finally decided to call the florist and find out who sent the flowers. He wouldn’t tell me well eventually I found out it was Dad. Wasn’t he sweet and wasn’t I a brat. Lol❤️❤️
