April Fool's Day

April Fool's Day

We thought we were so smart that we switched the salt and sugar shakers on April Fool's Day.  We didn't think about switching them back until my mom made cookies a week later and they were terrible.

Cars

Cars

In the olden days there were not suburbans or vans.  There also weren't seat belts.  We would sit three deep when we'd go to church with the biggest kids on the bottom, the middle kids on their laps and the smallest on the top laps.  If we went on vacation we'd have to take two cars.

Waterhaven

Waterhaven

We belonged to a private community swimming pool that about 20 families used. They built it behind a house on Second Avenue and we belonged for years.  We would all do our work in the morning and have lunch and then would go over for the afternoon.  We liked it best when no one else was there.  We had a great time making up games, relays, synchronized swimming competions. We'd have little Olympics, diving competions and play water balloons.  We would play there for hours.

Chicken Dinner

Chicken Dinner

When  mom and dad would go out of town we would have two old maids come take care of us..  One of them said we were going to have a chicken dinner and that it was going to be so fun.  Well it gets to be dinner time and we don't have chicken for dinner, and we can't figure out what is going on.  We asked where the chicken dinner was and she told us we were having it after dinner.  So after dinner we get everything cleared up and she started putting newspaper all over the floor and she started throwing cheerios, popcorn, and marshmallows on the paper.  She told us to get down and act like chickens and eat all the food.  So we did and had a lot of fun doing it.