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Happy Wednesday,

missing the mom gene

Wednesday Whimsy - We Were Awesome

I know this has been floating around the Internet for a few years, but it totally epitomizes how much fun it was to grow up when I was a kid.  Consider it my Wednesday Whimsy gift to you!

TO ALL OF US WHO SURVIVED THE 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's.

First, we survived being born to mothers who may have smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then, after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets, and, when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps, not helmets, on our heads.

As infants and children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.

Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter, and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And we weren't overweight.

WHY?

Because we were always outside playing...that's why!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were OKAY.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then riding them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.  After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Play Stations, Nintendos and XBoxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVDs, no surround-sound or CDs, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no chat rooms.

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from those accidents.

We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, or just a bare hand, and no one would call child services to report abuse.

We ate worms, and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and although we were told it would happen - we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.  Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers, and inventors ever.

The past 50 to 85 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

If YOU are one of those born between 1925-1975,
CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.

While you are at it, forward it to your kids, so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?

Wednesday Whimsy: I Wonder

I Wonder ....

why women can’t put on mascara with their mouth closed

why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour

why people darken their car windows

where do all the missing socks go

how does a thermos know whether to keep the drinks cold or warm

why does the Easter bunny carry eggs

why do we say "heads up" when we actually mean duck

why wrong numbers are never busy

why stores with double doors only let you use one of them

why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn the radio volume down

why is it no one is listening until you make a mistake

if children who act in rated 'R' movies are allowed to see them

if you can cry under water

if in libraries, do they put the bible in the fiction or non-fiction section

why is Grape Nuts cereal called that, when it contains neither grapes, nor nuts

can blind people see their dreams

why I even wonder about these things

Happy Wednesday,
missing the mom gene

Wednesday Whimsy: A Day in the Life of a Writer

wake up
    slow
        slow
today show

pee
    pee
   
eye drops
    wash face
        brush teeth
kiss kiss

meow
    scratch scratch
        feed kitty kitty
exercise
    moan
        moan

undress
    weigh self
        shower

mirror
    uggghhhh
        dress

newspaper
    coffee
        breakfast
more coffee

office
    10 feet
        away
            sweet

iphone
    calendar
        texts
macbook
    news
        email
            facebook
                rss feeds
                    twitter
more coffee

internet
    search
        troll
            search
                troll
idea

write
    soda
        write
            snack
                write
                    write
pee

email
    surf
        tea
lunch
    write
        write
   
meow
    oh kitty kitty
        scratch
            scratch
                scratch
write
    stretch
        walk
            walk
                walk
surf
    surf
        surf
write

email
    email
        email
coffee
    snack

IDEA
    REWRITE
        REWRITE
            REWRITE
sweet
    sweet
        words
pee

itunes
    soda
        stretch
dinner
    news
        cleanup
meow
    oh kitty kitty
        scratch scratch
            feed
email
    evening news
        facebook
            rss feeds
                twitter
tv   
fireplace
        macbook
            read read
                surf surf
eye drops
    wash face
        brush
            floss floss
                waterpik
pee   

undress
    mirror
        uggghhhh
jams           

bed
    iphone off
        daily show
            letterman
macbook off
    kiss kiss
        sweet sweet           
snore
snore
snore


sweet
     dreams,
missing the mom gene

Wednesday Whimsy

Hope you join in every Wednesday for my Wednesday Whimsy  ...  a collage of thoughts, expressions and wanderings that's on this ole' girl's mind.

Today, I dug out an old poem I wrote to The Professor early in our courtship 12 years ago TODAY as we cautiously yet eagerly began to fall in love.



  I Dream of You

In the darkness of the night
                              I dream of you
And you comfort me.

I turn to you

                 Wanting

                             But what .....

Do I know?

Do I recognize you?

Will you be there when I wake
                    To the fate of our day
                            To the desire of our past

Do not turn away
                  I will catch
                           Your breath
upon mine
                 and I will know you.


--missing the mom gene