today......A FRONT PORCH!
10.29.2013
10.25.2013
Friday
mandatory ins. meeting.
Katie to Brittany's bonfire, KJ to movies with Dakota and Jennie, Koren texted the punch recipe so I went & bought ingredients. cleaned house, found plates and napkins and forks left over from anniversary party.
Message to my teenagers....
MESSAGE TO MY TEENAGERS ~ (author unknown) 1. Yes, your freshman AND Sophomore years count towards your GPA for college entrance. Screw it up and you’ll work for crap wages your whole life. 2. No means NO. In every possible circumstance. 3. Join every sport, every club, every after school activity no matter what the cost. It’s cheaper than bail.4. Repeat after me: I am never in that much of a hurry…I am never in that much of a hurry. Now say that every time you get behind the wheel. It will save your life and that of your best friend in the seat next to you. 5. Don’t do drugs or drink - it is so not worth the trouble. 6. Don’t get a credit card. You earn it or you live without it. 7. If I yell at you, it’s because I love you. And also, because you pissed me off. To avoid the latter, don't be an idiot. And don't disappoint me. More importantly, yourself. 8. Make a vivid picture inside your head of every great moment of your childhood. You’ll need those to get through adulthood. 9. Make snow angels as often as possible. Make a bucket list. Check it off! 10. Stand up for those who can’t stand up for themselves. 11. Be always benevolent. Yes, that’s a word. Look it up. 12. Call me for a ride even if you are so drunk you barely know my number. I’ll probably be mad for a while but I’ll respect you for calling and I won’t kill you. Riding with someone who is drinking will. (PS - remember #5?) 13. Be a leader, not a follower. Unless you are following the kid with the highest GPA and (s)he is going to a study group, then by all means be a follower! 14. Love your siblings, even when you don’t like them. Some day you will be trying to get them to take care of me in my old age. If they are mad at you, you are stuck with me. 15. I’ve been there, done that on more things than you can imagine. I’m not stupid and I know what you are doing. I was once you (times ten). 16. Work hard at everything you do. Anything worth doing is worth doing well. 17. Cover it. (Enough said.) 18. When I tell you to clean your room, do not point at my messy room and raise your eyebrows. I’m trying to raise you to be better than me. 19. Learn to type; to budget; to spell correctly and to pray. All are equally important.20. Never be sedentary. Someday soon you will no longer be able to move like that. Enjoy it.
this old diary....
3-4-96"Those BBQ chips are mine!" KJ Dailey
3-6-96 Koren pueking
3-7-96 KJ sick p.m.
3-8-96 Kevin says KJ likes to use the urinal at Wendy's.
3-9-96 KJ s 4. KJ gotr card & $4 from G&GBrown, $10 & 3 pr of sweatpants from M&D, card from Lisa, Koren a Slinky and from us 2 playmobile sets, Ryan Steele maks, & Batman Blanket.
3-10 KJ got up with me a.m. and saw part of a movie while rewinding a tape where a sea monster ate a guy-KJ said he'd go in the tv & kick that monsters butt & pull that guy out & make that monster little like a baby & he'd cry.
3-11 my first Mary Kay party with valet parking!
3-18 Kevin did school conference, principal went on & on about "Koren is so wonderful and bright and gifted and such a joy." our first Diaper Derby, Kevin had to work. KJ was reasonably good.
3*-19 cut up and returendd Associates, C.B., VISA, and AT&T cards.
3-27 the preacher at Ravanna revival told them that Hell smelled like a burning car.
THINGS I REMEMBER FROM MY CHILDHOOD (& BEYOND...)the cows always getting into corn and alfalfa & having to run them out.
the long staggered line of cows headed for the barn.
huddling in the truck with my sisters crooning "I Want To Go Home" while Dad was cutting wood.
the bear eating mom's head off dream>crouching in the barn at Modena during the tornado
dad playing dead under clothesline one summer night
kicking the barn wall in the winter when our toes went numb.
wishing on a star for a boyfriend.
getting snubbed on a GS weekend trip to Camp Woodland & no one would talk to me---and in HS. I was snubbed & ignored until I found new friends who didn't do that shit.
holding hands with Randy K. on the churh bus after a skating trip (didn't remember this one transcribing in 2013!)
Mary Ann's boyfriend Ronald writing me love letters
Stanley R. flipping me over his shoulder playing Cowboys & Indians in the yard.
sitting with Kevin on the VICA bus that first night-and how I thought of him the whole time I was with Kenny.
Brad J.
hopeless crushes on shy guys who never noticed me.
making a disco bag and string tie for my 'outfit' in JH, tan jeans, white blouse with tie and disco pouch.
the strobe lights in the JH sunken guy at our JH sockhops.
Brad hiding Tickle Pink for me in the rocks behind the Snack Shack.
me, Shirley, & Misty cruising Trenton drinking Sonic PB shakes and looking for guys.
how cool I thought CAthie, Lisa, & Callene looked in 10th grade when they wore corduroy blazers over plaid prairie blouses, jeans, with hose and pumps.
the wild ride Mr Harrelson took us on down C highway
how cool I felt doing pompon routines. I practiced with my shadow on the front of the barn.
when Jackie from Cainsville tried to pick me up at a BB game...he was 14 and I was 17. I'd get up on game days at 4:30a.m., take a bath, do my hair, etc.
Brad M interrupting what I was sure was going to be my first kiss.
this old diary
1-12-199 6my first day as PSF Nursery Manager. Koren's grades: Reading A, Language A, Spelling A+, Math B+, Science A-, Social Studies A, Handwriting A-.
1-13-96 my first Sat. off since May. I watched Fox cartoons, kids slept till 12:15p.m. Reading Body of Knowledge by Carol Dawson. To Trenton: KFC, to Grandma Grace & Grandpa Vermals, returned book she'd loaned me and she gave me some other stuff to keep. Hy-Vee, Places.1-14-96 we all slept till 10:45a.m. Scooby unrolled all TP, hid KJ's new Terminator action figure, unplugged water bed and alarm in addition to the usual puppy piles and puddles. Ordered GS cookies from Jessica and Ashley.
1-15-96 to see horses.
1-17-96 Kevin signed up to drive risers on his nites off for $6.50/hr.
1-18-96 I got stuck on Mercer square, no school.
1-19-96 John called, Grandma Grace accidently locked herself out of house yesterday, fell and broke her leg-the neighbors called the ambulance for her. she went to Trenton then St Joe and surgery today, Mom is staying with Gpa. Grandma is 79.
1-24-96 Kj told Koren "Sis, do your your fuckin' homework."
1-25-96 Koren wants to quit enrichment.
1-26-96 Troy Honn died from a gunshot wound while he was in a car with 2 other guys-funeral tomorrow.
1-28-96 Koren made lasagna for supper.
1-30-96 Scooby ate Batman crayons.
2-2-96 Scooby got on bed and tore up some autographed book of Lijes.
2-4-96 coworker gave us a stray Bassett hound he can't keep, doesn't seem to like us much....
2-5-96 dog still here when I left for work: gone when I got home.
2-6-96 drove around looking for Spot.
2-7-96 Koren appears to have chicken pox, KJ wrote on LR wall with a pen.
2-11-96 Koren having pierced ears adds a whole new dimension to our relationship.
2-14-96 Roses! from Kevin & kids.
2-17-96 my first official day as farrowing manager.
2-21-96 KJ got a slight shock unplugging blow dryer after his bath.
2-22-96 Kj can count to 9
2-23 Koren made supper and transformed KJ into Amy complete with dress.
2-24-96 Wendy's drivethru has a digital screen that prints your order on it....COOL!
2-26 KJ & I slept till 1:30p.m. KJ came in kitchen last nite looking worried after a big clap of thunder and asked if there were any dinosaurs outside.
2-29 waited in line about 2 hours at JCP for family picture.
3-1-96 boys to get taxed done...$60 back, pay $60, $61 prep fee.
Lanny sent a dog home from work with me....Kevin told me to hit the road...no more animals....Koren christened him Shannon Lee.
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