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Sunday dinner at my parents, with all of us there, my brother and sister, all the nieces and nephews. Just a nothing special day, but looking back it was so wonderful!
it would be any day we visited my grandparents. We always spent a lot of time together at their amazing and safe home. One time as a young girl on a warm summer day I stood in the garden and a voice in my head said to me ”Hold this memory in your mind, remember it. You’ll appreciate it when you’re older.” I’m tearing up as I write it. I miss those times so much. it wasn’t even a holiday- just a regular every day visit.
Sometime in 1969, I was 7 living in San Diego. Second grade was almost over and I remember waking up with a warm breeze coming through my bedroom window! I got up and walked to school! When I got home my dad, who had been on board a carrier in Vietnam for the last 11 months was home! We played football!
Memorial Day 2024. When dancing with my 3 1/2 y.o. granddaughter I wouldn’t turn my back on her to check on the strange noise my cat was making. That way when she rolled across the floor I would see her coming and not end up with a fracture L1.
Playing outside with my friends. Riding bikes so fast it felt like flying. Drinking out of the hose. Watching the clouds roll by in a light blue sky. Playing with my neighbor’s new kittens. Stopping for peanut butter crackers at Mrs Edwards house across the street. Spending the whole day free until the streetlights came on.
Summer, on Wolf Lake in NY, swimming at the clubhouse beach all day, a BBQ later (we cooked over a wood fire), then a trip to Monticello horse race track with my parents, younger brother, and grandmother.
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The day my dog died. I feel guilty I was on holiday, and not there with him.
Sunday dinner at my parents, with all of us there, my brother and sister, all the nieces and nephews. Just a nothing special day, but looking back it was so wonderful!
If by “ordinary” you mean “nothing of note happened” it could really be any of them. Something in my mid-20s on a day I didn’t have a cold, I guess.
Dinner at my parents house when all the grandkids were little and my dad and grandmother were alive. Oh I would love that!!
it would be any day we visited my grandparents. We always spent a lot of time together at their amazing and safe home. One time as a young girl on a warm summer day I stood in the garden and a voice in my head said to me ”Hold this memory in your mind, remember it. You’ll appreciate it when you’re older.” I’m tearing up as I write it. I miss those times so much. it wasn’t even a holiday- just a regular every day visit.
Sometime in 1969, I was 7 living in San Diego. Second grade was almost over and I remember waking up with a warm breeze coming through my bedroom window! I got up and walked to school! When I got home my dad, who had been on board a carrier in Vietnam for the last 11 months was home! We played football!
A summer day as a kid when I had no cares in the world. Just outside, roaming and exploring with friends and my big wheel in tow.
Sitting on Nana’s back doorstep shelling peas for Sunday dinner and listening to our fave comedy radio show.
Memorial Day 2024. When dancing with my 3 1/2 y.o. granddaughter I wouldn’t turn my back on her to check on the strange noise my cat was making. That way when she rolled across the floor I would see her coming and not end up with a fracture L1.
Playing outside with my friends. Riding bikes so fast it felt like flying. Drinking out of the hose. Watching the clouds roll by in a light blue sky. Playing with my neighbor’s new kittens. Stopping for peanut butter crackers at Mrs Edwards house across the street. Spending the whole day free until the streetlights came on.
Summer, on Wolf Lake in NY, swimming at the clubhouse beach all day, a BBQ later (we cooked over a wood fire), then a trip to Monticello horse race track with my parents, younger brother, and grandmother.