The Past

I Just downloaded some pictures from the past. The year was 1974, Our Blue house was a great place to be child.I forgot the warmth of my sisters as we embraced for family pictures. Their Was no indifference in each of us. The purpose was too be a family unit. Every Year we would go camping after school. My Mother and Father taught me structure and patterns. Mother would cook the same meals every week. Homemade spaghetti on Sunday. I would remember the sauce would bubble on the ceiling from the big aluminum pot. Mother would make homemade Meatballs as hearty as Rocks. The whole house would smell like garlic and Love. I would always get the clove, I think mother put it on my plate just to get a laugh. Brenda and Julie shared a room with Sue. Their would be three sisters all together, and I was the only boy. I was envious because they would not let me in their room. My sister Julie was a avid reader. The two other sisters would pick on her every night. Brenda would push her in the closet, and she would fall for it every time. Sue would ask Julie to get a glass of water and hide in her bed and scare her, she fell for it every time.

Julie my sister who just passed away last spring and I had a special relationship. I do not ever remember her in my room much. But if I was gone for a while I would find her Kleenex under my pillow. Julie would go into my room to get away from her other sisters to read. I never read her books as a child, but I would gaze at their covers. Julie has every Wizard of oz book. I would look at there Illustrations and Imagine what adventures my sister Julie was reading her way through,. I was a go outside and play kid.

Brenda and Sue were always doing different things. The House would have three different plots going on at the same time. Looking at those black and white photo's is a blessing. I started to remember the things we did as a family unit. We would eat dinner together, and Dad always came home every night. Like I said we were always in a pattern, Tuna casserole on Monday, Pot pies on Tuesday, and pork chops on Wednesday. Mother always had a cookie jar full of homemade cookies. Our friends always new Mother would feed them.

We had many pets, a cat a dog and a parakeet. Their was always something making noises in the house. When Brenda would practice her clarinet, Oscar the dog would howl. Sue my sister always was having a skit getting recorded on the tape recorder, and Julie was listening too her awful Barry Manilow Albums. The picture's show us as small children, or teens below this, mother always would make our bed, pack our lunches,and always tucked me in at night. Mother would hem clothes with them on us and poke us with the needle, it drove me nuts.

The birthdays were awesome, all of my sisters friends would come over, and mother would have them make homemade pizzas.The girls would stay up all night, and I would get kicked out of the basement. I was always the witness not the perpetrator. The basement was always the place to be.


The days of 1974 and 1975 were peaceful. The sisters were not all seperated as in college. We took vacations together as a family. It was a good time in the Blue house(The family house).