and all looked fabulous for Chase's arrival. Kevin took the girls to lunch uptown. Koren called, we changed her Thanksgiving to the 23rd...so I will take Miss Katie to the city to buy her Sperry's this weekend. Katie, Vivian, and Chase went to her surprise Birthday bonfire. She was wearing the new jacket Chase got for her birthday.
we picked up Vivian, ordered Casey's pizza and hung out at Lake Paho while they made it, and now there is the sound of laughter coming from her room.
I feel guilty...tomorrow is her birthday, I didn't get anything on her list.....too $$$$. in fact, we have gotten her nothing at all. I am such a loser. her friends have planned a surprise bonfire for her tomorrow nite....thank God for them!
memories continued....
mom taking me with her to G&G to borrow $to turn the electricity back on when I'd asked for $ for a field trip.
wanting to see Shaun Cassidy in concert at KC in jr high. Aunt Mary took us to Starlight once and he was there with his mom Shirley Jones and came out on the stage with her for a bow. My friends had given me a Shaun Cassidy Teen Beat mag, hung a poster from it in my locker and SOMEONE STOLE IT!
Teen Beat Magazine.
Madonna swinger her leather coat over her head singingLike A Virginon American Bandstand.
saw Rick Springfield on "Fridays" I bought his LP and most of my school wardrobe that year was concert tees and jerseys I ordered from the album!
Lisa Gibson's Rosanna Rosanna Danna impersonation.
track and field day and homecoming week.
4-1 koren stayed home with a cold.
4-2 school book fair, KJ got 3 books, Koren 4. made it thru another school function with KJ and the camcorder. Koren had a recorder solo.
4-5 Nanci has cervical cancer. Todd pushed Andy into the empty pool.
4-6 made Jello Jiggler Eggs instead of boiled eggs. kids & I to G&G, Mom, Dad, & John brought dinner. John took kids to Moberly park.
4-9 forgot to reset alarm when I left for work, Koren missed school.
Koren's the 4th grade princess candidate....she planted her red pine seedling. ...much more fun than painting names on her deceased kitten's 'headstones'.
first bonus check....$119.00 after taxes. KJ cried when Kevin went to feed hay for lije...."I DON'T WANT YOU MOM..."
and thus concludes our little journey through a section of our lives....
'things I will never forget'....(but by the time I transcribed this, had forgotten most of them!)Charlie giving me a homecoming corsage sr yr and crawling under my old white car to jumpstart it for me after school when the starter went out.
the freedom I felt walking downtown after school and killing time until 4:30 when my shift started at the Snack Shack.Heaven Scent perfume.
buying my pink lace dress at Bostwicks on clearance for $25 for sr. homecoming. the first dress I'd ever had for a dance that wasn't homemade. there were 5 or 6 of us there in various shades of the same exact dress. kicking off our slide heels and dancing in our pantyhose, holding our long skirts up....the magic of those nights...and all the fun choosing decorations and staying after school to up them up...
calling Snack Shack on Nancy's portable phone for lunch orders
how my heart would race when I sat on the stone wall and got a glimpse of Kevin going by on the VICA bus....
I planned on writing my 1st novel at 15 like SE Hinton and then making my first Victorian crazy quilt at 16 (didn't get too far on that one.....have gotten farther on the one I started this year....)
I was going to be a single mom with a daughter named Shonna Sue.
playing Little House on the Prairie and Charlie's Angels---my sisters and I were going to turn old farm structures into houses and live on the farm when we grew up.I wanted to go to college at Dubuque, IA or Missouri Valley. I always wanted a Missouri Valley sweatshirt with Snoopy waving a RAH! pendant. (went to dance camp there one summer).
us using a couple of dollars of Koren's birthday money to split an order of FF at Hardees......those were the poor days.
I was a bedwetter. 'nuff said.
I still think of that $2.50 slice of pie I didn't get at Burt's Place in south Missouri and how I didn't get a pic of the kids by the giant ice cream cone @ Osage Beach 'cause I was out of film.
sitting on the dock of our 'lake house' with KJ bobbing with the current and watching boats and gulls.
spilling my large pepsi in Kevin's lap at Pizza Hut when I leaned across table to kiss him.
wearing jeans so tight I had to lie on the bed and soap the zippers to get them on.
mom's homemade donuts.>when us kids had the flu and got to sleep on the fold out couch and eat tv dinners.
I always wanted the JR GS doll that was in the GS catalog when I was a kid.
my stuffed Jonathan dog mom made me for xmas. he was stuffed with rags and weighed a ton.
the xmas at mom and dads when the whole family came....girls in long dresses, guys in leisure suits. there is an old polaroid picture....Aunt Dona's chocolate cottage cheese cookies.
Halloween is my hands down favorite holiday of all time (well, except for this year, I'm just not in the mood for anything this year....)...I miss searching for the perfect costume and accessories, planning a Halloween party, decorating the yard, making candy apples, popcorn balls.....Katie got very upset with me last year for volunteering at the party. VERY UPSET. so, this year I went to the chiropractor and had breakfast and went to Hyvee with Kevin instead.
it is a rainy, dreary, damp day, perfect for Halloween. bought a bag of mini Snickers in case we would have trick-or-treaters, but we've only had a handful the many years we've lived here. Katie plans on going to Bethany FB game with Kasen, Kevin has to work. will probably just watch a movie.
Kate is in Art Club so worked at party....I watched "Way Down East", a silent film starring Lillian Gish. I love silent films....so dramatic. they remind me of high school plays with the exaggerated facial expressions and emotions and gestures....
Kevin picked Katie uip from dance and made chili for supper. I took a nap on couch, then watched American Horror Story Coven with Katie.....
coolers of pepsi, naturally....
cremation....no viewing
play "Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce, Color My World, Cherish, Keep On Lovin' You...and live elephant rides would be cool!
