Can the adults please smoke? — Page 74

Oh, I would always get motion-sick if I had to sit in a rear-facing seat...

BUT - you can't beat those old wagons for tailgate parties!

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We had one of those Volkswagon Vans.

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The hippie one

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"Volare', wooo - o"

**gasp** Are You My Mother?!!

My favorite - I can still hear exactly the way my mother would say all the words when she would read it to me. *eyes well up again*

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gosh - bedtime memories just came flooding back...

When I was really little - I had a white wicker headboard - with all the swirls (just about every girl I knew had them).

My bedside lamp was a wooden circus-lamp with a pink and white striped shade.

Mom would come in to kiss me goodnight - and afer story time we had a little tradition where she would sing me a song that I thought had such silly words and would make me laugh -

Meet me in Saint Louis, Louis
Meet me at the fair.
Don't tell me the lights are shining
Any place but there.
We will dance the hootchie-kootchie
You will be my tootsie-wootsie
If you will meet me in Saint Louis, Louis
Meet me at the fair!


I LOVED when she sang that to me - in a sort-of lullaby voice.

Ok, I have to go cry now...be back later.

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*Eyes welling up here too*...my Mother always sang to calm us during thunder storms..."Pennies from Heaven". Till this day when we have thunder storms I hear her voice singing it in my ear and I smile. "So when you hear it thunder..don't run under a tree, they'll be pennies from Heaven for you and me."

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My mother use to tell me a version of "The 3 Little Pigs" that the pigs kept on out witting the wolf. They would make a date to go apple picking.. (then show up an hour earlier) or go to the fair.. she would get very silly ( I think it was accumulated fatigue)
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"Hop on Pop" was my fav. It's the one that taught me to read I think I was 3. It's also my kids favorite as well.

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I was ALL about Dr. Seuss - as a matter of fact, I still am!

That's sad Mom that you lost your Mom so early. It's nice to have those special memories to hold on to. I guess it's true that no one can take our memories away from us.

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My Grandmother was the one with the Boomarang shoe. Ouch !!!

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I loved One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and Green Eggs & Ham. Mom had to read it over and over and over again

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