So, I'm a little behind the game - it's been quite some time since my last post and I've been reading my sisters' blogs and came across a little thing on each of theirs...basically, they posted about memories and asked their friends and family to post comments that include a favorite memory with them. After posting a comment on their blog, you should put the message on your own blog so others can leave memories for you. Does that make sense? Well, it was really cute, but I was late on the draw and couldn't think of just one memory of each of them to include in their blogs, so since they're the ones who read my blog I thought I'd post some memories for them here!
Playing Restaurant - Now you have to imagine this - we were a little old (well, my mom, Corey and I were) to be playing pretend, but my mom is a wonderful individual and I believe her involvement in our lives let us be children when we were children and thrive and grow and create (I love you Mom!), so when I was in middle school we were playing restaurant during lunch over summer break. I'm not sure if I've got this all right, but Mom was the cook (my favorite lunches were Top Ramen or Chicken Chow Mein - in the can) and Ashley was the superstar - I think she would pretend to talk to Patrick Swayze on her cell phone! I can't remember Corey and I's jobs, but I know there was a food critic and we were always calling security! We sat around the table and took on our roles. It was fun, it was carefree and it let us use our imagination.
Rummy - In the Middle of the Night - Play to 10,000 (or so!) - My dad took fishing trips with my Uncle Ray one summer. They would go overnight and do their thing, so Mom, Corey, Ashley and I would do our thing. We took up playing Rummy. We would play into the wee hours of the night and rack up scores like no one's business. Sometimes we would play normally, but usually we ended up playing in teams - Mom and Ashley vs. Corey and me. But, we'd deal out 14 cards per team so we had hands like crazy - it was so much fun! Sometimes we'd play where you had to pick up all the cards on top of the card you needed from the discard pile and sometimes we'd play where you had to pick up the whole pile if you wanted to use something from it. Sometimes we'd make a number wild, sometimes a whole suit was wild. Get the White Girls together, staying up late into the night, and you have some pretty punch drunk girls on your hands!
Making the Video - For some reason all these memories seem to be from the same summer, but I can't really remember if they were. We spent one summer anticipating a visit from our cousin Stacey from Texas. We just didn't know what to do with ourselves, so we made a video for her - taping segments each day expressing our excitement and providing our brand of entertainment - it was great! If you haven't seen the video, just ask, Mom has it and will show it! It's much more funny to us since we spent so much time and effort (again, thanks Mom for encouraging our creativity) on this project, but anyone who sees it gets a good laugh out of it!
As we all grew up I watched my sisters turn into wonderful women! I am so thankful for the childhood that we spent together and for the influence they and my Mom have had in my life! Here's to memories!
4 comments:
Thanks Marcie!! Those are a few of my favorite memories also!!And then there are the many times when you were little and someone would ask your name and you would so cutely look up and say "Mousey" a nickname that your Dad still calls you by. And then the time when Ashley was just a baby and we were standing in line and you very loudly (which you normaly weren') asked how Dr Gurovsky knew that AShley was a girl. I love you Marcie
Ah Marce, loved this post! Yes, I do believe those memories were from the same summer and it was a great one! Porbably one of the ones that stands out the most for me. The funny thing is Jarv and I have picked up playing rummy together. And it was only a couple weeks ago that I was telling him about our all nighters! This was great. Thanks for the trip down memory lane (oh and you were security and I was the critic).
Its dad What I thought was funny is when I let you use the red truck one firday night and when you got up on saturday I asked you whst you backed into, not knowing anything and totally messing with you and then you admitted that you backed into a fire hydrant that was too funny
I was just telling Kelly about us playing resteraunt that one summer! It was so fun and such a funny memory! I haven't played rummy in forever!
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