Triggering memories and a question about Dan's photo.
Thank you very much for all the congrats for Heather. She's just tickled to death. I didn't realize this but they own K-mart now, which is rather ironic because that was my first real job, and Land's End. W00t!!! Now Land's End is going to be getting some major shoppage from me now. I've always loved their clothes, but Heather says that they told her I will be getting a discount just as she is because I'm a parent. Cool, huh? I'll definitely be taking advantage of it.
Heather goes in for her drug test on Monday like me. What a coinkydink! :)
I don't have much of a life right now because I'm not working, so I apologize for not getting off this boring subject but I have to say that a thought occurred to me today. The Sears that Heather will be working for has an awful lot of memories for me.
You see, I moved away from Georgia when I was thirteen and moved to Texas. When I married a Texan I never thought I'd ever live in Atlanta again, much less in the very same neighborhood! Yet here I am. Right smack back where I started all those years ago. My parents were divorced and my mother worked an awful lot. My grandmother practically raised me. She shopped at one store and one store only, that being Sears. This store has been in the very same location since I was a small child. All my favorite shopping memories come from that very same Sears.
The first time I ever got lost from a parent was... you guessed it. Sears! They had these tiles on the floor and there were these big squares. I was doing what all kids do and trying to walk on the tiles without touching the line edges. I was concentrating on this so much, that I didn't even notice my grandmother had walked off ahead of me. When I realized I was alone I frantically looked around and immediately burst out into tears. :) She was just around the corner, but it's a memory that I've never forgotten.
I remember when something sad happened to me with my father, my grandmother took me up there and bought me something nice and new. There are just so many memories! Isn't that something? When I was there all those times, I never dreamed that one day I'd have a sixteen year old daughter who would be working there herself. Isn't it odd how life works sometimes?
It's like our church. The church my children go to is the same one that my grandmother was a charter member of. My parents were married there and I was baptized there. After all those years, my own children began going there and also were baptized there too. As much as I hate Atlanta, there is something special about it.
Do any of you live in the same neighborhood that you grew up in? Being ex-military, I don't know many who even live in the same town they were born in, much less the same neighborhood.
I'm planning on going over to Tracy's tomorrow. One thing I'd like to do while there, is scan a few photos of Dan. Would you all like to see what the infamous Dan looks like? Unfortunately I don't have any recent photos of the kids and they've changed tremendously since the last photos were taken. Dan looks exactly the same as he always did though.
Well I hope the start of everyone's weekend is going well.
Love to all! ♥
Heather goes in for her drug test on Monday like me. What a coinkydink! :)
I don't have much of a life right now because I'm not working, so I apologize for not getting off this boring subject but I have to say that a thought occurred to me today. The Sears that Heather will be working for has an awful lot of memories for me.
You see, I moved away from Georgia when I was thirteen and moved to Texas. When I married a Texan I never thought I'd ever live in Atlanta again, much less in the very same neighborhood! Yet here I am. Right smack back where I started all those years ago. My parents were divorced and my mother worked an awful lot. My grandmother practically raised me. She shopped at one store and one store only, that being Sears. This store has been in the very same location since I was a small child. All my favorite shopping memories come from that very same Sears.
The first time I ever got lost from a parent was... you guessed it. Sears! They had these tiles on the floor and there were these big squares. I was doing what all kids do and trying to walk on the tiles without touching the line edges. I was concentrating on this so much, that I didn't even notice my grandmother had walked off ahead of me. When I realized I was alone I frantically looked around and immediately burst out into tears. :) She was just around the corner, but it's a memory that I've never forgotten.
I remember when something sad happened to me with my father, my grandmother took me up there and bought me something nice and new. There are just so many memories! Isn't that something? When I was there all those times, I never dreamed that one day I'd have a sixteen year old daughter who would be working there herself. Isn't it odd how life works sometimes?
It's like our church. The church my children go to is the same one that my grandmother was a charter member of. My parents were married there and I was baptized there. After all those years, my own children began going there and also were baptized there too. As much as I hate Atlanta, there is something special about it.
Do any of you live in the same neighborhood that you grew up in? Being ex-military, I don't know many who even live in the same town they were born in, much less the same neighborhood.
I'm planning on going over to Tracy's tomorrow. One thing I'd like to do while there, is scan a few photos of Dan. Would you all like to see what the infamous Dan looks like? Unfortunately I don't have any recent photos of the kids and they've changed tremendously since the last photos were taken. Dan looks exactly the same as he always did though.
Well I hope the start of everyone's weekend is going well.
Love to all! ♥