Posts Tagged ‘memories’
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!
I was trading “it’s a small world” stories with a friend and I thought I would share my best one.
When I was in college at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, I would spend my summers working in interesting places, seeking adventures and new friends. The summer of 1990 and 1991 I waited tables in the main dining room at Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone
Old Faithful Inn lobby, grand and awesome
National Park, a wonderful experience for me. The summer of 1993 I waited tables at the Many Glacier Hotel in Glacier national Park, in northern Montana. That was a very, very cold summer for me. As the joke goes out there, high up in altitude, “We have two seasons here, winter and July!” Ha ha ha. But not really. I froze my ass off all summer and the days when the sun did come out we would all just sit outside trying to soak up as much as we could. I did make friends with a diverse group, Melora from New Hampshire (“mah boyfriend just fahts & fahts& fahts in bed & I’m sick of it!” Tony ‘bag of donuts” from England, we are still friends to this day. Rachael from upstate New York who lives on the West coast and has been working for Google for forever. Ingrid from I don’t know where but we connected, I’d never met another Ingrid besides my sister.
I know this is a blog about trying to be a greener mom and greening my family. But I like for my readers to know a bit more about me, so every so often I throw in something personal.
I grew up in a suburb of Dallas, Texas with my three sisters. My parents divorced when I was in third grade, and my mom worked hard to try and keep it all together. It wasn’t easy for her, she had a high school education but hadn’t worked to support a family of four children until my parents split. I can’t imagine how difficult it must have been for her, I was caught up in my own kid world as all kids can be.
