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What kind of car is this?
Today we are starting a new series on Leaving a Life Legacy. From the day we started back in 2018 until this very post, we have always answered a question. Always leaving a legacy of stories for our family, filling in gaps they might be questioning and hoping to clue them into what life was like for us growing up. Now, we are going to do something a little different. For every post in 2024, starting with this one, we will be showing a picture from our family’s past. Some will be before we were born, some after. Then each of us will reflect on that picture, what it means…
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What circus act would you like to perform with?
If you could be part of a Circus, what would you do? Ha Ha! There is NO way that you would find me on the trapeze – I do not like heights. I have, however, ridden an elephant and a camel and neither scared me much. Yes, that’s it! I will be a grey-haired elephant rider. Sounds fun! I cannot say that ‘running away with the circus’ was ever on my agenda as a kid, but I have always been intrigued by the aerial acts at the events. With the introduction of Cirque du Soleil in the 1980’s, I became intrigued with the skill, strength and stamina required by the…
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What is your family’s favorite holiday decoration?
Most people have holiday decorations and as they bring them out every year, they remember stories attached. Do you have a favorite decoration that you bring out every year or miss? My favorite Christmas decoration is something my Mom bought me years and years ago. She got it from Lillian Vernon, and I can still remember my excitement when I opened the box. Once you insert and light the candles, the flames create heat which spins the paddles and the figures turn. An intricate joy-producing piece of the past that I love to just sit and marvel at. As a child, my favorite Christmas decoration was a very old (even…
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What is/was your Dad like?
Dads. We all have them, whether they are a part of our lives or not. How would you describe yours? This is our Dad. With us, doing yard work. We’ve shared this picture before but it really is how we both remember him. Dad. I can’t think of him without a smile on my face. I was just shy of 40 when my dad died and miss his presence in my life dearly. My dad was bigger than life. He was gregarious and had a great laugh, which we heard often. He loved joking around and teasing, especially the little ones. He was trustworthy and trusting, maybe too much as…
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What was/is your Mom like?
Do you look at your mom as a person and not just your Mom? Sometimes it is hard to do that, or we don’t do that until we have kids of our own and then start looking at our mothers differently. Our question today is what is/was your mom like? Here is a picture of our mom. She would hate that we are using this picture but it is a favorite of ours. My Mom. You know, she died just before I turned 30 and I have spent a LOT of time since then thinking about her, thinking about what she might have been thinking and thinking of what it…
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Write about a piece of jewelry you have and where it came from.
Sometimes jewelry can be very sentimental – do you have a piece with a story? I’m going to write today about a piece of jewelry I do not have but wish I did. When Ellen and I were little, trips to the “Big House” could be exciting for us. Each hour we spent tip-toeing around my grandparents’ big old Tudor would eventually bring something new to investigate. From the basement to the 3rd floor apartment, there were many nooks and crannies that held wonder and awe. But our favorite was when we ended up in the closet in the main hallway on the 2nd floor. The ceilings in there were…
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What is the dumbest way you have injured yourself?
We all experience injuries in our lifetimes, some minor some not so. Today we are asking what is the dumbest way that one of these injuries happened. Luckily over my many years on this spinning globe, I have not injured myself too often, I am blessed in that regard. I do remember one weekend afternoon, trudging through the brush in a very overgrown backyard, trying to get a lot of clearing/burning done. Wearing crop pants and sneakers, I was a magnet for ticks. Hours later, as we settled inside for something to drink and a tick inspection, I realized that my lower leg had been punctured by a piece of…
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Describe your memories of a piece of furniture from your childhood.
What piece of furniture from your childhood can still bring a smile to your face today when you think of it? I grew up around LOTS of antiques. Furniture and more. We were constantly taught by my grandparents to be careful of every heirloom and learned a reverence of sorts for each piece we passed. There were so many pieces that I was intrigued with as a kid but none more than a set of children’s chairs. These flanked my grandparent’s fireplace in the main salon. (I went online to see if I could find a picture and this is the closest I could come up with. ) According to…
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Complete this thought, “Today, I hope….”
hope [hōp] NOUN VERB What is it that you hope for today? Simply? I hope that those I love are happy, stay healthy, and realize how very much I care for them. Today I hope that we as a world can start to re-learn kindness. Kindness to the stranger, kindness to each other, kindness to our family and friends, kindness to ourselves. Kindness to people we will never meet or know….kindness to the world. Kindness to the Earth. Though we were not brought up in a religious home, we were taught The Golden Rule. I honestly had no idea that it was a religion-based tenet until I was an adult,…
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What is your first experience with death that you remember?
Do you have a memory of the first ever death you experienced? We would love to have you share. While I do remember my grandmother’s funeral, I did not process that as a death. We really saw very little of her growing up, and when we did see her, she was very standoffish, we had no relationship. She was of the mindset that children should be seen (sometimes) and not heard, so as sad as her death was to my dad, it really didn’t touch my life in ways that resound in my memory. However, a close friend of mine had a grandmother who lived in the same town…