My
sister is on the right, isn't she just so cute!
My
sister is a very special lady and I wish we lived near one
another so we could spend more time together. Once or
twice a year to be together is just not enough.
I
would like to be close enough I could have coffee with her
now and then or work on genealogy together.
When
I get to wanting to see her real bad I begin thinking back
over the years and the times when we have had so much fun
together.
I am sitting here today thinking of the wonderful times we
had growing
up
and wishing we could have had many more of them. Seems
that our childhood now that I am grown and thinking back
over it...flew away quickly.
Some
of the earliest memories I have of the two of us are us
taking wooden matches, sticking them in cucumbers for arms
and legs and making cucumber dolls.
We
made many mud pies and served many meals when we played
house with our dolls.
I
remember that we had some pretty good church too, we would
sing and preach just like the grown ups.
Our
dad when he was with us always brought baby critters home,
as I remember my sis didn't have as much to do with them
as I did though.
I
would get in the pig pen and play with the pigs but I
don't remember my sis being too fond of that either and
don't remember her ever climbing in with me.
We
had a pet raccoon named Oscar, our dad brought him home
one night. My sis would play with him and we would
take him to the barn with us, put diapers on him and he
was our baby when we played house. Since we played with
our cucumber dolls and other things at times I guess Oscar
did not always want to be our baby. We had a lot of fun
with him though.
We
watched baby rabbits playing in the soybean fields and
would watch the cranes fly over the levee and land in the
water on the other side.
Sis,
remember... the day when the bull chased you after we
climbed through the fence while taking dinner to daddy in
the field? I will never forget that, Mother was calling
you to come to her and you were running toward the
bull. I am thankful you were not hurt and we all got out
of there.
Don't
know if you remember much about the day I fell from the
tree and split the back of my head open on the tree root
when I hit the ground, you were pretty young then I
remember it very well.
I
bet you do remember our pet rabbit Mother got us though
and someone's dogs running him to death. How about when we
played under the railroad trestle with the neighbor kids.
Or
how about the night we went Trick-or-Treating and I ripped
my skirt, my favorite skirt I might add, climbing over a
fence...remember that? If I remember right Mother did not
know we were out and I was so scared that she would find
out, especially after I ripped my skirt. I think that was
the same night that the trash cans got thrown on the man's
porch and he got a gun after all of us wasn't it?
We
would open our bedroom window in the winter time, it would
be soooo cold, then we would pile on tons of cover and
crawl under it head and all. Remember all that country
music we would listen to and sing like everything maybe
even a few times under the cover too, didn't we?
What
about the night Mother had gone to the hospital to have
the baby and we played "Pins and Needles" over
and over and over again on the record player and sang and
sang.
Oh,
my! Remember when we left for Washington? Everything we
owned was in the car and you and I were sitting on most of
it. We shared the backseat with our brother who was only a
few months old and a lampshade. That lampshade, I will
never forget it as long as I live on this earth, it rolled
back and forth across our laps and we fought with it
hundreds of miles then just before we got almost to our
destination Mel threw it out of the car.
Some
of our favorite foods were those yummy tomato, onion and
Miracle Whip sandwiches that we used to make and eat. How
long has it been since you had one of those?
I
remembered today the cinnamon toothpicks I got from kids
at school and would suck on them all day long and those
huge pickles, remember them? I remember you eating the
pickles, but I don't remember if you sucked on the
toothpicks, I loved the toothpicks myself and did not eat
very many pickles.
I
dare not stop reminiscing before mentioning our
early years in sales. Our first business venture being the
candy stand we operated one summer selling bubble
gum and candy from our yard. We didn't get rich on that
one and it is a good thing the merchandise was donated or
we would have been deep in the hole for sure.
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And
then there was the watermelon stand where we sold whole
watermelons to go and had tables for customers to sit and
enjoy eating it ice cold by the slice. This was the
beginning of our volunteer work.
Remember
the day the tornado hit while we were working at the
watermelon stand and we had no place to go for safety,
people were watching us from a building nearby and no one
came to help us. That was a little scary wasn't it? I am
thankful we both made it through that unscathed.
Do
you think a praying mother had anything to do with that
day? It is for sure someone was watching over us and it
certainly wasn't the people around us.
I
could go on with other memories that I treasure but better
save those for the next time.
My
sister is a very special person and I am so honored
to have her as my sister.
