Lets for today, just reminisce on old times..

My parents and my older siblings, know about these

kinds of parties.

My mom and Dad used to have parties at our home

often before I was born. When I look at the pictures

of those parties and see my older siblings dancing

and having a good time with their friends

I am reminded that we may be siblings but we were

raised at completely different times.

I love those old pictures of their parties....

The spanking part, I don't know but I have a feeling

my siblings didn't see much of that but I could be wrong

I know by the time I came along spanking was not a

happening thing, matter of fact, being the baby and one

that was sick as a child, if you just made the baby cry

you were in trouble with my daddy,

Can I say spoiled, I was?

This, this car reminds me somewhat of the older cars

my dad used to drive. I love this old car insides

I wish some car maker would give us all the luxuries

of what our vehicles now give us but have the insides look like this.

I would so be up to buying one. I love this car and

red is my favorite color.

This camera makes me laugh because my sis, Veronica had a

slightly newer version of an old movie camera.

I remember being little and sis getting out that old/new camera

and the lights were so bright we would all be squinting and hiding our

eyes so all the old videos are of us hiding our eyes unless it was

outside and you didn't need the lights....

so funny, wish it wasn't so darn expensive to put all those old

videos on dvd. What a family get-together that would be

to watch all those old videos.

Drive-in's oh how I loved drive ins!!!!

Again, memories of my sister,

remember, when I was young my sis V. was married and

had her own kids people believed that C and I were hers

that is how much we were with her.

There was not much money when my sis and Nonc J first

got married so they would pack all of us kids in

their car because it was a cheap outing.

They would get that green pic from the glove compartment

you remember, they were round and you would light it to

keep the mosquitos away.

then at the jet drive-inn, the candy line was the best...

Sister, V would line us all up,

Myself, C, Tiffy and Tie and we would each get a

hotdog with the famous jet-drive in chili and

then we could choose one candy from the magnificent

counter of candy. Oh it was so hard to choose from.

Ju-Ju-bees and sweetarts and lemon heads

every candy you could imagine.

Those memories for me were the best.

If it was a grown up movie that we couldn't watch

V. and Nonc J would let us eat and then make us

beds on the back seat and we would all sleep while

they watched their movie.

I don't remember us arguing and we slept good

as we slapped the mosquitos away because

Pics only worked if you were close to them...

V. and Nonc, they couldn't afford babysitters

and it was cheaper to just bring us and buy us

a dog and a candy...

They were good to us, I mean really they could

have left C and I to the vices of our own parents

but they never did, they brought us everywhere

even if is was a movie we couldn't watch.

They were very good to us.

The speakers, funny about those speakers you hooked them to your

car window and prayed the one you picked worked,

if it didn't you drove to the next aisle and found one that did.

Just this could take a while so we had to go early.

Oh and also because we had to have eaten our food and be asleep

before the movie started.

However if it was a kid movie,

we wanted to make sure our speaker worked so we moved

spots many times...

Life was simple and good back then.

I had a great childhood really, I did

it was not perfect and it consisted of little money.

My parents were not rich but we wanted for nothing

because we never begged for anything.

We didn't know of what there was to buy

because we had no computers and our tv

didn't tempt us with all the newest toys.

It was a different world back then.

I sometimes feel sorry for the children of this

generation because so much of some of their

lives are about wants and technology and

material needs.

They will never know about drive- ins and pics...

It was a good little life I led.