December 26, 2008

Kiddy

Filed under: Uncategorized — Linda @ 7:10 pm

My mother is 88 and still as sharp as a tack! Dad is 89 and is getting a bit, well, old. They met during the second world war. Dad was in Africa during the war. When I was in England this time we took him to the church for the service for Armistice day. Or Veterans day. He wore his medals for the first time.

Anyway my mother has kept all the letters between them from the war. She said I can have them one day. I want to organize those letters and read every one. I would title the letters “Kiddy”, this was my dads nick name for my mother. They can’t remember why!

I took this photo of her out of a drawer. She was about 18 years old and looked a little mischievous! If only we could step back into that time and be a fly on the wall. If she could remember where that photo was taken I could go back there…but she can’t remember or what the note on the back meant, ” Did you forget Darling?” in her handwriting.

I love you, Mum and Dad.

Not only kids that like Christmas

Filed under: Uncategorized — Linda @ 6:26 pm

Here are the photos I promised from yesterday. So about the scary eyes. Brook, our first dog is 10 years old this month. We named her Brook as we had been looking to move to Brookings and the name seemed to fit. She had a squirrel as her first toy as a pup. Mei got both Brook and Max a squirrel for Christmas and Brook wanted both of them. Those of you that know her will often see her trotting around with several of my slippers, socks, or unmentionables!

But after a while when the excitement settled they had one each. 24 hours later both squirrels are still intact!

Thanks, Mei.