Here are some random things I miss, for varying but differing reasons I may or may not choose to share.
1. My Grandparents... Love you two so much. Thank you for the red carpet, the hugs, the openness, and the perfect definition of a grandparent.
2. Smarties lollipops - they always used to sit on the top shelf in my G-pa's office. I was able to find some after his death in July, and they've been a great connection.
3. School House Rock on TV. It's Schoolhouse Rocky, that chip off the block, of your favorite school house, SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK!
4. The song that must have played in background of my first three years of college over and over and over, If I Had a Million Dollars. Haven't YOU always wanted a monkey? Nothing cooler than eight dozen people listening to this song while waiting for CAB Bingo night, and yelling that at the same time.
5. The ridiculous, insulting, juvenile computer game that I absolutely could not play enough of... You Don't Know Jack! I could so easily be sucked right back into Cookie's domain.
6. Fall parties and spring formals. I love the inventive costumes fall party always revealed, and the nervous excitment and sight of my beautiful sisters filing into a ballroom and singing the table grace in their evening gowns.
7. Sisterhood week, that emotional, high-stress, insane week that started off my last two years of college. I love the way that all the stress over snack food, furniture arrangement, conversation practice, and "poop sheets" melded into sweet rewards at the end of recruitment.
8. Carnival Sensation and Carnival Liberty. Awww, sweet relaxation.
9. The orchards where David and I took a hay ride through the apple orchard to the pumpkin patch to pick our 1st pumpkins as a married couple. Then we had homemade apple cider and apple pie. Fresh, fresh apple cider with real cinnamon... in our sweatshirts and jeans. Crunching leavings and ripe apples.
10. Fall - beautiful leaves everywhere, spending Saturday afternoon in sweatshirts, jeans, hats, and gloves at the football game. The scarecrows, indian corn, gourds, hay bales... all of it.
11. Little babies. I mean that baby that is so little you've got to support it's head or it looks like it might just fall off.
12. The pool. I love to hang out in the water all day without worrying about what might crawl across my legs or sting my kids or me. I love the beach, it's beautiful; it's just sometimes I like to be in the water, not think about what's there with me. Chlorine can be my friend.
13. Christmas season. I love how everything's decorated. The little unique stores have those emotionally-tied smells emanating from inside, luring me to linger just long enough to find that perfect treasure.
14. HUGE family gatherings at my G-parents.
15. The math and science shows that used to be on PBS; OH! And, She-Ra, Smurfs, Snorks. The Rainbo Bright show, Punky Brewster. Silver Spoon.
16. Mr. Wizard.
17. Solo contest. I loved-hated that feeling of waiting for my turn to perform, then bashing the performance the whole time until my rating was posted. I always ate slice or two of pizza and drank more soda that 1 day than I had in the months leading up to the solo contest.
18. My Paula Abdul and Janet Jackson tapes. And my mixed tape my friend made that she taped off the radio for me.
19. My totally ripped thigh muscles from riding my bike all over the hilly town where I lived in middle school.
20. Sleepovers. Bra freezes. So much bad food I might be hospitalized if I were to try it now. Prank calls that made me blush horribly, even the Monday after the sleep over.
What do you miss?
Saturday, October 6, 2007
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5 comments:
I too miss Grandma and Grandpa - sending yellow roses for birthday/anniversary and hearing their voices.
I miss having my daughters close by and beign able to have an impromptu lunch with them or shopping with them - even though they didn't always agree with my tastes.
The time spent with my sis - laughing until we cryed over really dumb stuff!
You are the best and I am proud of you!
Your mom is so sweet! Yesterday, I took Isaac's old 12mnth-18mnth clothes out of a storage box and washed them all. My heart starting aching because I remembered Isaac in all of those clothes. I miss when Isaac was younger, but I'm overjoyed with the Isaac I have today. It's kind of hard -- contantly having to let go of your son in the past and embrace the ever changing one.
Funny stuff! I loved schoolhouse rock!!
a metabolism that could burn through a giant bag of m&m's
I LOVE your list, Janel. Some of the obvious sorority reference I did not get b/c we have none where I went to school, but the rest... We have so much in common! LOL Brought me back like those stupid emails that circulate around about "if you were a child of the 80's..."
My faves on your list:
MY Grandparents!
Barenaked Ladies (hello...Canadian anthem!).
You Don't Know Jack! (I was just thinking about it recently too!)
The orchards - only b/c I grew up in one.
Fall (in Canada).
MY babies (nieces & nephews I'm missing growing up back home).
ALWAYS Christmas season & family get-togethers.
And all those fun girlie things, sleepovers, cheerleading trips, pranks...
#19...yes, there was a time for me too, REALLY. I need a new bike!
Oh, & "hear hear" Annie!!! :)
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