One of the saddest things about my parents splitting up and then remarrying is that the new marriages ended up with new babies added to the families, and when my father died his first set of kids got absolutely nothing from his inheritance. Everything he owned was given to his new family – even his left handed Martin guitar that he had promised my left handed sister. As usual, the original family suffers. Sometimes I get angry at how unfair life can be!
Category: Entertainment and Fun
After dinner last night my sister brought out a large cardboard box full of pictures taken back in the ’60s. It was so much fun looking at how skinny and awkward we looked back then! Most of the pictures that were taken as group family photos had at least one of the kids pouting. That must have been very frustrating to our parents, trying to get a good group shot and there was always someone throwing a clog in the gears!
Some of the photos were of us kids inside the old log cabin that we used to spend our summers in. One of the things that I loved about that cabin was the feeling that you got when you were inside – it really felt like it was an authentic old log cabin. There were only three rooms – a small galley style kitchen, a small bathroom with a shower (no tub) and a large multi-function room. We used that large room to eat, play, and sleep. It was furnished with rustic log furniture that looked like Adirondack chairs made with whole logs. I was really quite sad when my parents sold that cabin; I loved that place.
Seems as if fire pits are all the rage lately. My sister was telling me that she was looking at some patio fire pits at FirePits.com to get some ideas about decorating her little garden oasis in the back yard.
I think that the fire pits are cute, and when I think of the memories of my own childhood of roasting marshmallows around a camp fire, I think about how cool it would be to have a fire pit to roast marshmallows on again. But then reality hits me and I realize that as awesome as it would look, my “real” family would probably never use it; my “real” family is a bunch of technogeeks that don’t like going outside for any reason at all. I love my family, truly I do, but I sometimes wish that we could have some “old fashioned” family fun together.
One of my favorite all-time films is the Monty Python’s flying circus film “The Holy Grail.” I’ve only seen it once or twice before, and I have to be in the right mood for such silliness, but it does give me a good belly laugh when I watch it. And who doesn’t like a good belly laugh from time to time?
My father used to love watching the Monty Python’s Flying Circus television show back in the ’70s and ’80s, and whenever I watch any Monty Python flick I think of my father. When I watch them I get a melancholy, bittersweet feeling. I miss him. I hope you enjoy this short video of one of my favorite parts of the film – the taunting of the French Knight.
I have made it very clear to my family over the past several months that I was going to be too busy to host Easter dinner at my house this year. I was really in hopes that someone else in this big extended family would invite us to their house for Easter dinner. But no, no one invited us at all. So a couple of days before Easter I went to the grocery store and bought a small ham, with the intention of having a small two to four people dinner at my place.
Wouldn’t you know it that the night before Easter several members of my family called me up and asked me what they were supposed to bring to the Easter dinner that they were SURE I was holding! After all, I’ve held it every year for the past five years, of course I would have it this year too!
Can you say EEK! Well, the house was not decorated for any festivities at all; it wasn’t even cleaned “company clean.” And we made a mad dash to the grocery store and bought a larger ham and we ended up having a family Easter dinner at our house after all! It’s good to see family get together, whether the house is clean and neat or not. And it was good that no one in the family made any big deal over the cleanliness (or lack thereof) and clutter in the house. And you know what? That’s a GOOD thing!