How do you answer this one?

Ask your Mom and Dad to tell you about their courtship, engagement and wedding. Write about it and describe your mother's wedding dress.

I would ask them this question but they are both gone. My mother has been gone for 8 years and my father hasnt been a part of my life since I was 5 (not sure if he is still living or not). I can tell you what I do know about their relationship though.

My parents were young when they met each other they both are from Springfield, Illinois. I am not sure how old when they met but they had my older brother when my mother was 18 and he was 19. I was born when she was 21. They were married at the courthouse. My Aunt Linda was one of the witnesses to the marriage. Not sure what her wedding dress was like or if she even had one. She did marry a second time and I remember that being a skirt and jacket. I believe it was creamy white. (I was older). These pictures were taken after they were married and had us children. My father was in the air force he was stationed in El Paso Texas and in Homestead Florida.

Today's Question

Describe a typical day when you were a child in elementary school.

When I was in elementary school they didnt have kindergarten. We moved alot when I was young so I don't really remember much about most of my elementary years. So the years I do remember are 2nd grade, 3rd grade and sixth grade.
I attended the same school for these years even though we lived in different houses, we lived in two different houses on the same block.
I dont think I stayed at the same school for more than two school years until I was in high school. A typical day of school for me was getting up and eating cold cereal or oatmeal then walking how ever far the school was from home. I never took the bus to school until I was in high school. I remember walking to shcool by myself because my younger brother went to a different school then I did. My older brother was always a grade ahead so he had his own friends and walked with them. I would walk down the street singing to myself.At school I was very shy and quiet. I loved school espically reading. I remember going to library and checking out 3 or 4 chapter books every week. My parents were divorced when I was young and so we came home to a babysitter because my mother worked at night. She slept during the day. So during the school day my life was somewhat normal. I did the same things at the same time every day. I had meals at the same time. We had spelling bees, math, social studies, PE wasn't really offered that I remember. Music was a part of my daily school day. Art was even a part of school. We used paste most of the time (No I did not eat the paste) not glue. In third grade I was sick alot with throat infections. ( I think now it is called strep throat). I had tubes put in my ears, tonsils out,they kept you in the hospital for these surgeries, so I spent alot of time catching up the school work I missed. In sixth grade I became a victim of sexual abuse by a neighbor, I became withdrawn and sometimes a class clown which is the time I started getting sent to the principal office. I never spoke to anyone about what was going on. Even through all this my grades were high.

Learning about me.....via an YW activity

Back when my daughter was in the Young Women's Program in church they took a mason jar and put strips of papers with questions on them to help them begin to write their history for their future generations. As I was cleaning one day I ran across that jar,seeing as how my daughter isnt much of a writer the questions are still in the jar. I deceided that maybe I could answer a question each week from the jar, that way my daughter might someday have some things to tell her children about their grandmother(whenever I become a grandma).On the front of jar there is this written:

INGREDIENTS: Life was not meant to be bottled up forever. This jar is jam-packed with deliciously interesting questions to inspire you to celebrate something very important. YOU!
RECIPE: Combine a generous slice of your life history with a dash of nostalgia and several cups of facts and feelings. If you will follow this simple recipe, you will find that you will soon have a very delicious personal history.
All you need to do is draw out one slip of paper everyday (or at least once a week) Spend a few minutes and just enjoy the remembering. Then paste the question at top of a blank page and begin to tell about it.
Don't worry about spelling,handwriting, etc..........just tell YOUR story!
This product was prepared to preserve your life history. Enjoy the scrumptious homemade memories.
SERVE YOU AND YOUR POSTERITY.

Here is the first question I pulled from jar today.

1.If you could be an animal, which one would you choose and why?

I would choose an polar bear.
Because I love snow and they get to live where it is snowy. They are big enough to defend themselves, they only have a few children and everyone loves to see them at the zoo. As a dutiful mother they usually have one set of twin cubs and teaches them to hunt and take care of themselves and they leave after just two or three years. And I don't think they move back home to live off their parent.