Category: Way back when
There’s a contest over at Uppercase Woman to win an iPad 2, sponsored by Buy More Contacts – head on over there for a chance to win one yourself! If you haven’t had a chance to get to know Cecily, you should. She’s an honest writer, even when it’s uncomfortable. I appreciate that.
She shared a story about getting contact lenses when she was a teen, which inspired me to share my story too.
If you haven’t been keeping up with Live Green Mom, I grew up in Texas with three sisters and a single mom that was all about being a Born Again Christian. She even became an ordained minister. I don’t know how to explain the whole thing well, but she believed in faith healing, speaking in tongues, and the casting out of demons.
Question for you…
When you were growing up, did your mom ever do or say anything that made you think, ‘I’m going to have to ask her about that one day when she can’t yell at me for asking about it?’ I have quite a few of these tucked away.
When we were growing up, we didn’t use plastic garbage bags in the kitchen trash. We used the brown paper bags that the groceries came in, tucked inside the kitchen trash can, then when they got full, pulled them out, then dumped into those larger black trash bags that went out by the curb for the garbage man to pick up. We could fit about 4 brown bags of trash into the larger plastic bags.
I’m a mom with a nine (almost 10!) year old girl and a 7 year old boy. And with that comes lessons & activities.
I put my daughter into soccer like every other stay at home mom in this town in Kindergarten. My daughter likes to go outside and run around, and other mothers had commented on her skill with a soccer ball when we were fooling around at the park. Well OK then! Clearly she was meant for soccer!
So I already went on about some ‘stuff’ I do buy and enjoy. How about some stuff I enjoy for free around the holidays?
While I do not appreciate the fact that one of the local radio stations started playing Christmas carols 24/7 on November 1, I do enjoy a few choice festive tunes.
As I sit on a plane bound for Boston, I have plenty of time to reflect on my 3 weeks in Germany with my family.
If you read my blog, you know I opted out of putting the kids in day camp for a couple of weeks this summer. Instead, we went to Germany to spend time with my father, stepmother. My children’s Oma & Opa. I have the best memories of the summer I spent with my Oma & Opa, summer of 1982.
I knew it would be good for us to get out of our comfort zone. I’m 40 and plenty set in my ways. My days have a routine that (mostly) works for me and my family. I needed a jolt out of my perfectly content place.
