Chase the Race, Family, Etch a sketch, Lily Brat, Memories and Changes
Yesterday in my post I talked about
my nephew. I have told you all about
him and his racing career before.
Such a young -looking boy
to be running so fast around
a track.
In the past I have spoken about
how he learned to drive a stick
shift so that he could drive a race
car at the age of 14.
Yep, thanks Chase for that scare
when you almost ran us in a mailbox.
Chase sat on the pole at the age of
17, ARCA racing the day before the BUSCH
series. He is the youngest
guy to ever sat on the pole and will
hold that title since rules were
changed a yr of so later.
Chase was the oldest of
four kids. There was Chase,
14 months younger was Sean,
and then there was Paige.
We lost Sean when he
was 8 to cancer. Then Ray and
his wife at the time adopted Cobi.
Cobi came from Romania to
be a part of our family when he was
just over a yr old.
I have four nephews,
and three nieces.
I also have five
great nephews and two
great nieces.
Then you mix in my 7 grandsons,
and my six great grand kids.
I was so busy working, being a mom.
raising two kids and trying to
live my life that it seems like
these folks went from kids
to adults with kids in the blink
of an eye.
I gotta stop blinking before
I am so old I can't move.
But then again, if I keep shaking
my head I would be able
to forget my age!
While sitting on the deck
in one of those really RARE
moments where Lily wished to be
close, just no close enough to touch,
I was able to get some
shots of my beautiful fun filled
girl.
Oops, she caught me.
But, she stayed and
did not jump up and run.
BRAT!!!
I was reading and replying to blogs
a bit ago and I stopped at
Miss Merry's
she spoke about the past and
how her granny always had to go to
a park and have a picnic on Memorial
Day.
Got me to thinking, my dad worked
holidays most of the time and although
we would do picnics at the lake in
the summer, there were no special
days set aside like Memorial Day
or the 4th of July.
Just wasn't a thing in my
family. But also, I don't recall
us ever doing that sort of thing
with neighbors like as a young woman
with kids, me and my friends did.
Nothing like packing a picnic and heading
to the park with friends.
Does your family do that or
when growing up did your mom and
dad do that?
And oh how the holidays have
changed. Before, it was not a
thing for homes to be all decked out
for Halloween or Christmas.
We did not carve pumpkins as a child,
my ex hubs introduced me to that and
to roasting the pumpkin seeds.
We always had a Christmas tree,
but I only recall a plastic head
Santa whose nose lite up being placed
in the window. No knick knacks
or no lights outside..
Was your family different?
I guess subconsciously I decided
that it would not be that way
at my home. I decorated the bedroom
doors on BDays, the kids had their own
little trees at Christmas in their
room, I have always hung outside lights,
and of course, you know I decorated to
the nines for Halloween, even dressing
up to answer the door.
Isn't it funny how subconsciously
you can change your life and
40 odd yrs later you realize that is
what you did?
Think on that one,
Pam
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