Ramblings... and rabbit trails...

Do you ever lay in bed and have thoughts go through your mind? I do..and they zoom through and around at 100 mph it seems!  AND I have gotten worse since I hit menopause! I have thought and planned this blog out for several days now. At night.... When my thoughts zoom and zoom, and go off on rabbit trails! I should have called this blog the "Rabbit Trails of my Mind"! HA! Anymore at night..right around 11pm or closer to midnight, that seems to be the time that my kids want to talk, or I should say, TEXT with me and I with them! I do enjoy our conversations. I know they are both busy during the day. My daughter works and is taking 16, or is it 15 Credit hours this semester in college? The most she has ever taken. The normal is 12 Credit hours. She also has an internship that she does at a local DSS office 2 days a week. Just this past week she finished up 3 different applications for Graduate school. I tried to help her get things typed up and formatted into PDF's. It was a lot of hard work and lots of hours but she did it! She has always taken any challenge thrown at her. She may get stressed but I think she handles it very well. My son is a hard worker too. He lives in the mountains, we jokingly call him Mountain Man! He does look like one with his thick beard that he grows for the harsh winter up there.He has a job that requires him to be out in the weather."Snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays..."..oh wait..that's the Postal Service Creed...anyway, you get the gist. See? I have rabbit trailed off my main goal! Onward we go!

Here is a picture of me from Nov-Dec 1964. I am eating a hotdog on bread! Haha. I think I grew up on those. I actually remember sitting in my highchair and getting hotdogs from my dad. Maybe that's all he could fix. :) My mom worked during the day and dad kept me. This is one of my earliest memories. That teddy bear in the chair with me..I still have it. I do not remember what I named him though. All my stuffed animals and dolls had names. Everyone had to have a name!

Here I am with my parents at Christmas 1964. I was a bit on the chunky side! LOL This is the way I like to remember my parents. Things happened through the years that will be written about later on that changed. But these are happy times!

This is Christmas morning. I remember getting the doll in yellow. See how we are dressed alike? :)  The doll in yellow is Posey. The green haired doll(I never have figured out why she was green) is Heidi. Yes, if you are wondering, I do still have both dolls! Heidi is in need of repair. She was filled with sawdust and she got a hole and lost a lot of her sawdust! Posey lost her hand. Posey's body is made of foam,and her feet,hands,and head were rubber. I should look them up and see what they are worth.You will find as we journey through my yesterdays that I am big into antiques. I love relics from the past! I am so in love with the past! The clock in the picture is a 1964 Fisher Price. Check out this video(click on the word)..it is my Clock.  
The stuffed Santa behind me was made by one of my Aunts, Nancy. I think she made a lot of those! There are very few of my childhood toys I got rid of. Some that I did, I regret it now and wish I had them back. I kept all my kids toys too. Only if they broke did I get rid of them. I know my son is like me in that. He doesn't want to get rid of anything!

Last picture for this posting! I have a book in my hand of the Night Before Christmas. My parents instilled reading into me at an early age. I loved books then and I do now! I love Christmas too. My mom used to decorate to the 9's for it! I think because she did, I fell in love with the lights and decorations so much. I absolutely love Christmas with all my heart!
That's all for today! See ya back tomorrow! Leave me comments if you would like!
Tracee