Can the adults please smoke?- Page 74

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 11:42am

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!

[mominator]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 11:50am

Did anyone else have a Galaxy5000? Holy Toledo that thing sounded like a 747 taking off! My dad's was a dark olive green

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 11:53am

We had one of those Volkswagon Vans.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 11:58am

The hippie van or the Vanagon?

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 12:02pm

The hippie one

[TorontoBoy]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 12:03pm

We had a burgundy Mercury Marquis with white upholstery. Great move by my folks with 2 kids.

The next car that made an impact was a Cordoba. Ricardo Montalban must have made an impact with my dad

Posted: 8/3/04 at 12:04pm

"Volare', wooo - o"

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 12:12pm

My favorite book as a child !!! I made my Mom read it over and over until I knew it by heart and pretended to be able to read the words myself.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 12:19pm

**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*

[Bobby457]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 12:20pm

remember when comics were like .15.

My favorites:

Richie Rich
Wendy and Casper
Little Lotta
Archie

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 12:27pm

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.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 12:28pm

Bobby - Richie Rich and the Archies were my favorites.

I loved Casper on TV.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 12:31pm

*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."

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 12:36pm

Boobs - you are making me CRY!

(people in the office are looking at me!)

Thank goodness for the good memories!

Be back after lunch. I'm suddenly in the mood for a glass of milk and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich...

[mominator]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 12:40pm

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)
B

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 12:42pm

Enjoy lunch NYadgal..I don't mean to make you cry.

I have to post all the words to "Pennies From Heaven" because now it's going through my head:

Ev'ry time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven
Don'tcha know each cloud contains pennies from heaven?
(You'll find your fortune fallin' all over town)
(Be sure that your umbrella)
Is upside down

Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers
If you want the things you love, you must have showers
(So when you hear it thunder) Don't run under a tree
There'll be pennies from heaven for you and me

[mominator]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 12:44pm

"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.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 12:45pm

...it's the right kind of cry

Love those lyrics - what a special song!

Mom, I like your version of the 3 Little Pigs...

Posted: 8/3/04 at 12:48pm

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

[mominator]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 12:48pm

This story would just go on and on.. she'd pretend she was the wolf chasing after the piggies, it was so funny. Thanks to whom ever brought up bedtime stories. My mom passed away when I was 10, so anything that helps spark memories (since I have few) is a great thing!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 12:51pm

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.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 12:54pm

My mom used to whack us with one of those bolo paddles after the ball broke off. Ahhhh.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 1:06pm

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

[EddieVarley]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 1:06pm

My Mother was the queen of the silent sucker punch!

[TorontoBoy]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 1:07pm

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