We made it out to the flea market and Chandler bought these....
Those are REAL Tiger Shark jaws with teeth!! Kind of scary actually!!
We made a trip by our old house, saw our old neighborhood. It is hard to look at the house and how the people there are not taking good care of it. That is the house we first built together. It seems like an eternity ago. Where has the time gone? Anyway, we stopped by McDonald's there in our old neighborhood and had lunch. This was one of the first places our children met each other for the first time. Haley of course said she really didn't remember it - but we now have it engraved in her head :) A lot of good times there for sure!! The first place we ate together as a family....and really the first time our children played together.
On our next stop in the time machine, we stopped at the "Laughing Place" the daycare facility that kept all of our children at one time - brave souls these ladies are - ha! Anyway, Mrs. Opal and Mrs. Donna look exactly the same. Mrs. Opal said every hurricane season, she thinks of us - and the time I almost cut off my left hand....boy, did we all start laughing then. Mrs. Opal wears time on her face and in her memories. She talked about how much our children have grown and about her granddaughter, who is Jenni's age.
What a great day! Mom cooked us a big pot of chili and Rebecca made us bread bowls....let me just say - MOUTH.WATERING.SUPER.GOOD!! We all left mom's with our tummy's full and our hearts warm.
Blessing of the day: Traveling in a time machine where people remember us and the sacrifices we made for our children.
Quote: Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years
A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. ~Carol Shields
