I know I haven't blogged in a very long time. And I choose to blog today on this photo? Of all the things I could blog about I choose this lovely photo as my inspiration...why you ask? I guess it's because I saw it during some house de-cluttering and was overwhelmed with a flooood of memories and thoughts.
This picture is a representation of my great (one of few I ever had )birthday party that I shared with my bestie Kin! After all, our birthdays are only 6 days apart so what better way to celebrate than with a duo party. The memories that I have aren't so much about the party itself, because I sadly don't really remember much about what went on there. I remember more the whole period of my life at that time. Being 13 huge years old! Really, thirteen is super old and super cool right? After all it is the beginning of "teens" and a whole new chapter. Or is it?
Isn't thirteen still just a kid....I say it is :) I have a 13 year old daughter of my own and she is still, in my eyes, just a taller and prettier (much prettier than I in that lovely photo) girl. Was I anything like her? Were the clothes so similar in ways to the styles that are flooding back into the stores? - SCARY ! Love the pegged pants, plaid, and colored jeans. So 2010 :)
I remember that I had made some lasting relationships at thirteen. I still have these close friends today. Some I see occassionally, some rarely, and some even with the search of facebook, I don't even know where they are?? SAD.
I think at thirteen I was appropriately worried about style, hair and the other typical things girls worry about. I remember it being a lot more fun to think about the next time I would get to hang out and do nothing very significant at all:
1. Watch the Cosby show at the Anderson's
2. Eat the treats we got from FAST GAS
3. Ride bikes at the dirt hills
4. Figure out how I was going to get to a friends house in S.F. to hang out
5. Ride bikes to the Payson Pool
6. Collect some more magazines with NKOTB pics
7. Make up another dance
8. Listen to the TOP 20 on the radio so I could hurry and push record when my fave NKOTB song came on.
9. Go to work with my mom to earn a couple $$ straightening greeting cards. That was good money BTW
10. Go with my friend Heather to her grandparents house and get those pink Pepto-Bismol tasting mints. MMMM (how did I ever eat those?)
Mostly I think of how simple life was. I am a firm believer in letting kids play out their free time. Not overscheduling!! We choose not to do too many dance, piano, karate, soccer, lessons, lessons, and more lessons just because I feel like there is not enough time to let kids to grow individually through their own interest. Kids and even 13yr olds need to pick some free time activities. Mine like the cosby show :) I recently found them watching Family Matters, you know with Erkel? (sp). How simple is that. Of course there are cell phones, game systems, internet and all the other stuff I have to tear them away from. If I could wish something for them it would be that they find that "free" and "easy going" part of life I feel is missing in these futuristic years.
As I looked at this pic, it really took me back to a day I long for - perhaps when I was about 13 :)
In the pic: (front) Laraine, Sara, Kindra, Natalie
(back) Heather, Tracy, Ali, Julie, Danielle, Teresa, Trudy
(on the couch) my MOM !
6 comments:
LOL!!! Loved your post. I miss those days and then I don't. It's funny to look back and remember what was so dang important to you at that time. NKOTB were the freakin' bomb! Seriously, I miss our duo b-day parties and having fun with our friends. Your list was perfect. I do wish we could forget about my glasses and my horrible perm. But those are the things that make memories fun to laugh at. Thanks, Raine. Love ya, bestie!
What a funny picture! I wonder how I ended up plunking myself down in between the birthday girls? I guess I wanted to be the center of attention:)
Loved your post! So many great and not so great memories came flooding back. You guys were always such great friends to me! I want to say thanks for including me, but from the looks of the picture, I was NOT going to be left out!!!
Good times. I have all of the same memories...even helping straighten greeting cards. I wish that it could be the same for my boys as it was for us too. I remember being gone all day long playing outside and not coming home until dinner. I don't even dare let my boys out of my sight now. I've seen those pepto candies around and they always remind me of my grandparents, but I don't have a desire to buy them and eat them. :) Great post! NKOTB forever!
btw, your mom and i have the same triangles on our shirts. :)
loved this!
LOVE it!! And I completely agree, kids need some down time. It's rare, but I love the afternoons when my kids come home from school and just veg rather than run off to play at a friend's house or get shuttled off to a practice or game. When they are in school I hardly see them as it is. Those are the days we make cookies together and just talk. I hope they remember them in a few years. PS, I totally remember you and Kin looking like that!
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