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Almost 70 years ago Clyda and Veon were married. That union is why we are all here. This blog is created to capture our thoughts and help us get to know each other better. There will be a new question posted each Sunday until December. Please use contributors first names only. If you are posting anonymously please add your first name to the text. Enjoy!
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Attention everyone...Marilyn has a WEB PAGE !! You can check it out at www.marilynsmithartist.com!
Nicole, please publish the following disclaimer in a prominent place:
I hesitated to make long narratives with these posts, but Nicole said she might put the whole blog thing into a book form someday, and I could use this as a forum for writing for my kids and grandkids. I can’t pass up an opportunity like that. So rather than bore you, feel free to skip anything you’re not interested in or don’t want to be bothered to read. Sonja
Note from Nicole:
I am happy to do this for anybody that is interested. I am enjoying hearing from each of you and would love to hear from more. Thanks Sonja for taking the time to work on this and giving us an opportunity to get to know you better.
Kids from Lt to Rt:Marilyn, Barbara, Veon Jr., Gladys, Gerald, Evan. Clyda and Veon in the Middle.
Sonja
Ve's Wife
Nicole
Glady's Youngest
Marilyn
The Youngest Daughter
Evan
"The Baby"
Daphne
Glady's Oldest
Clyda
9 comments:
I was never sent home from school but in 4th and 5th grade I had a rebelious stage and spent sime time in the principal's office on a regular basis mostly for not picking great friends and following the croud.
I got sent home sick a few times . . . Once I was even really sick. :)
Daphne
I never got sent home from school, but did get sent to the principal in grade school for wearing make-up. She would take the girls into the bathroom to wash the make-up off with Noxema.
I was sent home in high school when I "accidently" lost my shoes in Sugarhouse Park. One couldn't stay in school if one didn't have shoes on. I also took Seminary as it was a legal reason to leave the school grounds. I believe I was sent to the vice principle's office for sluffing a few times. I usually was pretty quiet about what I was doing and figured out I could do a lot of things just by being quieter about it.
Marilyn
It sounds like we are a family full of mostly goody goodies with bouts of passive aggressive rebellion. LOL. I don't remember ever being sent home from school, even after I threw-up on a girl (same girl, three years in a row)! I sat in after school detention once and had to do community service in junior high school. Both were for tardies. I've pretty much always followed the rules, except when I think the rule is really stupid. Even then, I just make sure the administration knows I think the rule is stupid and follow it as much as I need to in order to not get into trouble.
It's been awhile - Mindy
I was too much a goody-two-shoes, (and too scared of getting caught) for it to ever even occur to me to do anything enough against the rules to get sent home from school or to get sent to the principal’s office. I never even had the nerve to sluff a class. (What a dweeb)!
Besides, I didn’t want to miss school. I couldn’t wait until I could go to school and learn to read by myself. I was very disappointed when I didn’t get to start when I was 5. Our little school didn’t have a kindergarten. I don’t really remember a lot about any class work other than the reading. I remember the Big Book of Dick and Jane, that we would read from in class. And I was so excited when I began to recognize words and actually began to read sentences! When I finally got my own little book of Dick and Jane to take home, Mother sat patiently every night and listened to me read, and acted as excited about it as I was. The life Dick and Jane led were more like my cousins’ life than mine, but I could relate to "Baby Sally."
Mother had read to all of us - my brother, Ray, mentioned it at her funeral. One of my favorites was The Secret Garden. So when I could finally read for myself, I had more time to read when Mother didn’t. I discovered adventure and fantasy worlds that exploded my world view, gave me company, and made up for my own lack of imagination. Some of my early favorites were The Box Car Children and The Teeny Weenys and later The Yearling.
The first of the two times Miss Thompson spanked me was because I giggled out loud at something I read during free reading time. Despite all the reasons I have for disliking her, I’ll always be grateful that she taught me to read.
I got sent home once in second grade, after Asenath carried me half way to school. We had walked through the woods, and through the old "Mansionette" place rather than riding the bus. We walked through a field of clover that had a bazillion bees busy doing their thing. I felt a sting on the back of my left heal and my foot began immediately to hurt and swell. I had to take my shoe and stocking off, and by the time we got to the school my foot was as big as a baseball. Years later Mother said she thought it might have been a very small Copperhead because it swelled so severely, and no one ever found a stinger. She didn’t want us to know because she didn’t want to frighten us about snakes being in the woods. (Didn’t matter, I was scared anyway. I had watched her kill two adult copperheads with a hoe once, in our basement. She wouldn’t normally kill a snake, but she wasn’t about to let them endanger her children).
I didn’t miss another day of school until I got a nasty case of flu when I was a Junior or Senior in high school. Sonja
With Marilyn, Jerry and Barbra as role models, Galdys and Ve teaching them, how could I have ever done anything wrong?
I know there were a few parent calls or discussions at parent teacher conference but I never got sent home. Principal's office VP's but I don't remember details. (I didn't get caught saved a few incidents)
Evan
I probably should have done but I didn't. I had a mouse put in my snow boot and turned it loose on an assembly one time. I'm not sure they knew who it was.
Clyda
Well, look who's the rebellious one, disturbing a whole school assembly and getting away with it. LOL!!
Mindy
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