While they were here for Mother's Day we went with Matt, Tiffany and their kids to Mr Gatti's. They enjoyed the bumper cars while I enjoyed the Salad Bar, Cheese Sticks and Spaghetti.
They played in the arcade and enjoyed the photo booth while I sampled the variety of pizzas, more cheese sticks, dessert pizzas and the endless drink refills.
I think they had fun, I know I did.
I remember back when we were young, Mother thought it was all right to cook, wash dishes and make up beds on Sunday. She thought it was against the Lords will for Lucille to do any sewing and for me to do any ironing. I am going to guess it was Lucille and me were down Gibson's doing some Mothers Day shopping. I purchased her a picture frame that held eight small pictures. I don't remember what Lucille got her.
When we got home we decided not to give her the gifts till Mother's Day.
That Sunday I think it was Clyde who went out to the car and brought in the gifts in a store bag. When I saw the bag I noticed the frame I got her. I didn't think she should see it today. I just thought it at the last second, "Oh! my goodness today is Mother's Day." She saw the frame and said she was going to put pictures of Michelle and all of us in it.
Story by Sherry
I ran this old black and white photo of Mom and Aunt Virgie through the AI in Google Photos...
And it produced this photo of Michelle with Aunt Dib...
Maybe I need to quit using the free version of AI and use a paid version. (Nah, I'm too cheap to speed money on this nonsense.)
They will always bring the groceries and the books. When they come I will always have the books I borrowed from them last time and give them back and take the ones I asked for the day.
They will also take mother to church and bring her back.
One day as I was taking the books back, Dad said, "What's going on here?"
I said , "I am borrowing some encyclopedias off of them to do my lessons." This went on for two years. Dad said, "Gert, we are going to have to get that child there an encyclopedia set."
Before school started back, I was in the eighth grade, I got the set. Michelle and Jeffery got to use the set also.
Story by Sherry
Some family traditions just won't die, even if they probably should.
Bryan, Emerson and Journiee, three generations of bathtub photos.
I remember back when we were growing up, Lucille would do a lot of sewing. I remember either Jeffery or I would be somewhere around her when she sews. She would ask whichever one of us was around to go and get her something.
The first question was "What does it look like?"
She will describe it and the next question was "Where is it?"
She will tell us where it is and we will always go and get it for her. One time she asked me to get her something. I asked, "What does it look like?"
She described it and said she didn't know where it was.
I said, "I don't know where it is either."
Jeffery entered the room. She asked Jeffery to get it for her and told her she didn't know where it was.
Jeffery said, "I don't know where it is either."
Story by Sherry
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Follow-up by Clyde
I remember Luci's sewing days too. I recall asking her to sew me a black vest once. I had seen movie stars and several cool rock stars wearing them. Of course, I wanted to be cool too.
She whipped one up for me. It was a pullover made of a faux leather fabric. It looked really cool, until I put it on.
You may have seen this post by Tiffany on Facebook recently... __________________________________________________
She’s got my deodarant lol 😂 She’s like, "Mom, I’m up to no good, 😂😂😂 But if I smile I won’t get in trouble." lol 😂
