Good morning. Â The Mister is sleeping in….he really needs the extra zzz’s. Â The youngest and I got up at 5:45…his choice of course. Â I tried to persuade him to snuggle and sleep a bit more to no avail. Â So…here we are…just the four of us…the youngest, myself and our two four legged friends at… on my feet.
Yesterday, the youngest had a play date right after swim team . Â They played hard with only one injury…..my guy ran right through…over a rose bush thad had been cut down but not removed. Â Of course he had no shoes on since the kiddos were playing with water guns. Â His feet really hurt this morning and I am indecisive whether or not to take him to swim team. Â One of the Mister’s friend’s wife contracted the flesh eating bacteria from entering a public pool with an open wound. Â I don’t want to be paranoid….and our pool is kept exceptionally clean….so, again my indecision is rearing it’s pretty little head.
The boys had two friends that they haven’t seen for a year and a half come over to our house to play. Â The friends moved to Evergreen and their mom is still a teacher at the kid’s school. Â The kids had fun…
Our guys were pretty wiped out and both of them came down in their p.j.’s at 5:00p.m. Â They asked if they could watch a movie in our bed after dinner to which we replied, “Of course”. The rest of the night was relatively quiet. Â The mister and I also watched a movie, “Wanderlust,” very funny.
Here is the Mister to finish up…..
Ok, yesterday must be some kind of record for comments, 6 responses to what did you do on Sunday nights, well, here ya go,
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Blondie says:
I remember watching Disney’s Wild Kingdom and then Tarzan was on after that! I also was lucky enough to see the “Beatles†live on Ed Sullivan! I will never forget that!
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robi says:
I remember watching World of Disney with the family and dad always made BBQ chicken or ribs – yummy! P.S. Just for the record I have never, nor will I ever, milk a cow or anything else! HEHE
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A slight correction to my previous post: It was MOA Wild Kingdom and the Wonderful World of Disney, then Tarzan! Mom used to pop Jiffy Pop and we would all sit around and be mezmorized by the TV on Sunday night! There were only a few shows on back then…didn’t have millions of channels to choose from…you watched what was on and had very little other choice!
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Dixie and Don says:
What did we do on a Sunday in Oklahoma? On our farm we had no electricity, running water, nor inside plumbingg. We had an outhouse with three differrent sizes of “seats†(holes in roughsawed wood with old catalogs and newspapers for –well, you know. We had real toilet paper from about 1941 on–after the dustboul was over. On Sunday nights we listened to a battery powered radio to any adventure or ball game that was on. During the day on Sunday we usually had a large special meal with everyone around a very large table that was once a display table in a store. If we had company, the meal was set on the table with real dishes for all the men, then the ladies and children had what was left. The children ate from pie pans or even lids. During the war–the big one–all meals were very quiet because Dad listened to every newscast, we kids knew that we didn’ t dare make a sound. Consequently, allof us grew up knowing what was happening in the world. Manytimes on Sunday , a couple of neighboring families would come over to help with working cattle or butchering. Then, of course, our family was expected to return the favoring. That favor was and still is called “working back.†We kids had a great time playing with our friends and Please overlook my errors because I may be able to milk a cow, but I don’t know how to go back and correct my mistakes
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Annette says:
We got our first tv in 1952. We watched what ever was on. Sat. we watched Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger, Hop Along Cassidy, Flash Gordan. Mom and I watched The Guiding Light and Search For Tomorrow(soaps). When we moved to Stockton (57) my best friend and I would run home from school to watch American Bandstand and Mickey Mouse Club. Sundays in the summer mom went to church then we went out to the boat to swim and water ski. We always had a bunch of friends with us then we would get home and mom would fix dinner for everyone. We watched the same shows you all watched. Before 1952 I was like Dixie and listened to the radio. I listened to the Sat. Night Fights and the Yankees Baseball games until the Giants moved to S.F. Sugar Ray Robinson was my favorite fighter. I listened with my dad. I listened to the opera from S.F. on Sat. mornings while mom cleaned house. We listened to all the cowboys and mysteries. I still love both cowboys and mysteries. We always ate dinner as a family usually about 8pm. My dad worked late. Sometimes we ate breakfast together depending on what time we had to be at school. When I was a little girl my dad was not home alot during the week because he was a truck driver so it was just mom , my grandmother (she lived with us) and us kids. I’m sure that was hard on my mom.
Now I remember Wild Kingdom and Disney and Dad’s bbq as well, we ate really well. And it was all on cooked on real coals, none of this gas stuff we all use nowadays. What’s interesting is Dix and Annette’s experience. I can almost see them as girls by reading their posts. I don’t know about you but I think the world was a better place when we were kids. Maybe it’s just because we were kids and had no responsibilities or bills, or stress and so on.We don’t talk about it much anymore but the title of this whole thing is 2011 Family Makeover. Behind the scenes we’re still focused on trying to better our family and quality of life. Of course the biggest monster any of us have, outside of health, is big bad debt. Yes we still have it and the misses and I are so focused on it that we know the exact number on a daily basis. You see they (the big banks and credit card companies) have you in a trap. Interest rates and fees are so high that if you can only pay the minimum or even a bit more, like us, they have you for life. If we had no interest, we’d be out of debt in under 3 years but with interest, we’ve calculated it’ll take 22 years! It’s just a never ending bad roller coaster ride. It’s just hard to understand how big banks and credit card companies are allowed to charge you 25 to 30% interest when you can only get 2% or less on your savings account. It’s all screwed up. We’ve cut up 90% of our cards to no avail and when or if we ever get out of debt, this is one family that’ll only pay cash going forward. If we can’t pay cash, we won’t be buying it.Oh well, it is what it is. We’ve been in this trap longer than I can remember.Your health is more important and we’re trying to stay on top of that at the same time. As most of you know, the misses headache is back on and off and we’re trying to keep her head calm. I think she’s doing too much too soon. Meanwhile I’ve been walking around feeling foggy. I’m hoping it’s due to lack of sleep and stress and maybe the smoke in the air. When we were in Wyoming I was fine but as soon as I was back down here I started feeling woozy again from time to time. I took one of the misses Ambian’s last night and finally had a good nights sleep. We’ll see how I am today.Ok enough about our challenges, let’s hear your memories of summer vacations when you were a kid. We’re thinking of making the 6 hour drive to Mt Rushmore. What are you favorite memories from when you were young? Let’s keep it going. Have a great day,God Bless,
Sunday nights couldn’t forget those, they consisted of Mutual of Omahas Wild Kingdom followed by Wonderful World of Disney as we ate either BBQ chicken or ribs.