No, this is not about the hot variety of flashes which I am all-too familiar with at this junction in my Almighty Menopausal Existence. Which is my current favorite euphemism for this Thing called Life.
In a post, JuJu linked to this post which I thought was a rilly good idea. Since it’s a free (well, you know…) country AND I’m giving credit where credit is due, I thought it would be okay to steal the idea. The idea being, in case you didn’t click on the links, is that we make a list of 25 Memories We Might Like to Have Flash Before Our Eyes Before We Kick It. Here is my list:
- Sitting with my Pap Pap watching Gunsmoke, enjoying his Old Spice.
- Friday night shopping trips with my mom. Hazel and I took turns every other week. This entailed a bath right after dinner and getting dressed up. I mean wearing a dress and good shoes.
- A Sunday afternoon ride in my dad’s white Jeep.
- Walking to grade school when the lilacs were in bloom.
- My first kiss.
- Slow-dancing to Can’t Get It Out of My Head.
- Seeing the sun rise over the ocean for the first time.
- Quiet moments in the middle of the night nursing each of my babies.
- First time I saw my dad on stage.
- Michael’s college graduation.
- Being there for Julian’s birth on Christmas morning, the doctor handing me the scissors to cut the cord.
- Seeing JuJu in her wedding gown all radiant.
- Watching PD holding each of our grandbabies for the first time.
- The night I met PD.
- Clubbing in Buffalo with Brother Bill and Cousin Fred after Gloria’s wedding.
- Seeing U2 in concert.
- Seeing Brother Joe awake and sitting up in the hospital bed after his kidney transplant.
- The morning JuJu came home from Arizona.
- Sharing beers (and Pepsi) with Denny and Beau at Mosquito Creek Sportsman’s Club.
- “Doing the Fair” with Kate.
- Watching The Golden Girls and Beavis and Butthead in bed with Ju.
- Dancing at NiCastro’s to Sweet Breeze playing Night Flight.
- The Christmas we all got sleds.
- Sitting on Pud’s porch eating licorice
- Champagne reception at Phipp’s Conservatory.
Great list, and I hope you have more, because it’s really a list of 100! I need to get back to mine.