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June 2005
Thoughts on Being a Twin
Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:00 A GMT-06
It has always been great to have a sister to do things with. Growing up we were close. After we graduated from high school in Japan, I went to college in Arkansas and D went to stay with our dad's mother Grandma. Our lives took different paths
Category: The Past My Thoughts
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Getting My Ears Pierced
Monday, 27 June 2005 12:00 A GMT-06
I don’t remember the exact year, but D and I decided we wanted our ears pierced. My mom already had hers pierced a year or so earlier. The earrings for pierced ears were so much prettier than clip-ons. It was arranged for a friend of my mom
Category: The Past
OK, I Hurried! Here's My Entry for KOK
Sunday, 26 June 2005 7:38 A GMT-06
ProcheinAmy is the host of this weeks' Karnival of Kidz. Below is a photo of my family in 1983. Olan Mills had a special offer, so we had our photo taken quite often in the early 1980s. I like this photo, although Amy might not because of her h
Category: Karnival of Kidz
Diary Entry
Saturday, 25 June 2005 5:57 P GMT-06
I've been reading some of my diaries. I started with the first one, which was in 1958. I wrote the following entry on February 10, and I was 11 years old: Our class had arithmetic problems--subtracting. I made 0 because I added.
Category: The Past
My Uncle's Memories
Friday, 24 June 2005 12:00 A GMT-06
I was talking to my mother's brother the other day and he told me about a couple of things that I don't remember. He said that when my twin sister D and I were young and had to take naps, he would hold us and rub our foreheads until we fell asleep.
Category: The Past
Mumps and Other Childhood Diseases
Wednesday, 22 June 2005 5:01 A GMT-06
Sometime during grade school I had the mumps. Both sides of my neck swelled. I think I was in bed for about 2 weeks. D, who shared the bedroom with me, never got the mumps. At one time, she got chicken pox, but I never did. Both of my child
Category: The Past
My Dolls
Monday, 20 June 2005 12:00 A GMT-06
I had a little doll that had the face and hair painted on it. It also had a hole in its mouth and another hole to “pee.” I would give it water from a tiny baby bottle, squeeze its chest, and it would pee. I loved to wash the doll, too. I
Category: The Past
Who I Am and Why I Blog - Updated in February 2008
Saturday, 18 June 2005 4:04 P GMT-06
Why: I started this blog because I wanted my grandkids to know more about me and my life so far. Then I realized that there are things that my children don't know. Although some things are the same for my children and grandchildren, in some ways life
Category: Blogging
Tiles on the Floor
Friday, 17 June 2005 12:00 A GMT-06
When D and I were learning addition and subtraction, our Dad would quiz us. We would stand side by side, each standing on a floor tile on the living room floor. If we got the answer right, we stepped forward onto the next tile. I can’t rememb
Category: The Past
Meme Taggaroni!
Wednesday, 15 June 2005 7:44 P GMT-06
I've been tagged by Prochein Amy! Below are five things that I miss about my childhood.1. As a teenager, sitting in the grass in the backyard on Saturday afternoon talking to my friends. This includes not having to clean house, cook, pay bills,
Category: Miscellaneous
Hearing and Hearing Aids
Wednesday, 15 June 2005 12:00 A GMT-06
During grade school, D and I had earaches. My mom would put warm oil in our ears. Since then I’ve learned doing that is not a good thing. Both D and I have some hearing loss. Her doctor said it is probably caused by childhood infections.
Category: The Past
Taking Cod Liver Oil Pills
Monday, 13 June 2005 12:00 A GMT-06
When we were in grade school, our parents gave D and me cod liver oil pills every day. They were tiny, dark red, round pills about the size of a beebee. It was good that our parents cared about our health. The only trouble was I had a hard time
Category: The Past
Snow!
Friday, 10 June 2005 12:00 A GMT-06
It didn’t snow very much during the 5 1/2 years that we lived in New Mexico. But one winter we had a gigantic snowstorm that left a huge snow drift against the backyard fence. We dug into the snow and made a room inside. Eventually we climbed
Category: The Past
My Mother Talking on the Telephone
Wednesday, 8 June 2005 12:00 A GMT-06
My mother used to talk to her friends on the phone. Whenever the friend was talking, she would say, “Uh huh.” One day we decided to see how many times she said it. So we sat on the floor in the hall where she couldn’t see us with pencil a
Category: The Past
Girly Bikes
Tuesday, 7 June 2005 1:42 P GMT-06
After posting my entry yesterday about my first bike, I thought about the new bikes that my two granddaughters received for the younger one's fourth birthday earlier this month. I wish that my first bike had been like theirs. The younger one got
Category: The Present Grandkids are Grand!
Learning to Ride a Bike
Monday, 6 June 2005 12:00 A GMT-06
D and I shared our first bicycle. It was light blue and had training wheels. We would ride it up and down the sidewalk in front of our house. One day our dad wanted us to ride the bike without the training wheels. D made it on the first try.
Category: The Past
I Want to Sleep With You Forever
Sunday, 5 June 2005 9:01 P GMT-06
I've been hearing a song on the radio that I really like--Making Memories of Us by Keith Urban. I like both the melody and the words. I especially like the words, I wanna sleep with you forever, I wanna die in your arms. I told my husband thi
Category: No Point Whatsoever
Karnival of Kidz
Saturday, 4 June 2005 7:55 P GMT-06
Below is a photo of my family in June 1977. That little girl on the right is ProcheinAmy. The kids are bigger now, and so are my husband and I. All of us have some gray hair now. But with the wonder of hair color, you can't see very much of t
Category: The Past Karnival of Kidz
That New Invention—Television
Friday, 3 June 2005 4:16 A GMT-06
The first time I remember watching TV was at a neighbor’s house. It was a teeny tiny black and white one. I don’t remember what the show was. Later my dad won a “blond” console TV playing bingo at the noncommissioned officers’ club.
Category: The Past
Happy Birthday, Granddaughter!
Wednesday, 1 June 2005 4:57 A GMT-06
Today is my younger granddaughter's fourth birthday. In honor of her birthday, I want to thank her and her sister for being my ganddaughters. I love my granddaughters, and I like it that my granddaughters love me too. They are very sweet an
Category: Grandkids are Grand!