Life In a Small Town

Today's Monday Memory should keep in step with what today is about. It's Labor Day. A holiday. A day to honor the working man by giving him/her the day off. Growing up (as now) we got Labor Day off from school. Down here in the south, we start school mid August, so we've already had 2 full weeks and are ready for a "break"! It's still very warm here, temperature wise, which makes it the perfect day to grill burgers and hotdogs. At least that's always been what we've done. Growing up tho...no Labor Day was complete without watching the Jerry Lewis Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy. My mother and I would turn it on the night before, when it started, and try to stay up all night watching our favorite stars perform, and to see Jerry Lewis talking to the kids who suffered from such a horrible disease. Throughout the day on Monday, even as we did our chores, and prepared food to take to my "surrogate grandparents' house" (since I grew up several ...

In trying to blog more, I've decided to try a few new things. Memory Monday is one of them. This is my attempt at a meme, maybe---is that the right word? Anyway...my thought is to share (and have YOU share) a memory about a specific thing each Monday, through words, pictures, or both. So....are you ready?? Here goes. In keeping with the whole "back to school" thing going on in my life..... What is a memory you have about being in the 1st grade? Mine....let's see... I remember being the highest reader and my teacher having to supplement me like crazy. I got to read chapter books, and she'd quiz me on them, and I got to work on those little SRA folder stories where you'd read the story printed on them and then answer questions...and they were color coded by levels. I remember playing on the swings at recess, me and my friends Shani and Stevie. We all liked this boy named Asa, and we'd "hang" off the swings like we were falling off and yell, ...