May Day

When I was growing up you made a kind of basket filled it full of flowers, rang the doorbell and ran. I think that during World War two it mean't your plane was in trouble. Now when I was in kindergarten I went to a school across the street from my parent's house that had been changed into a Junior High and the had added a gym west of thte school. My kindergarten class had a MayPole dance on the roof of the gym. I think the center of the pole must have been a basketball item but they had added crepe paper strips. We wore lovely crepe paper outfits and danced in and out of each other. I was gorgeous and have a picture someplace in my scrapbook wherever that is. We were about eight feet over their heads. Later when one of our daughters was ill a Brownie group brought her a May basket with candy in and some of my granddaughters have made me a few since and giggled a lot. That was more fun they having your airplane go down or a message you were in trouble. I notice in the news that one of Kansas City's private schools was having one so maybe it still exsisted.

Sally and Howard"s wedding

Our daughter Sally and Howard were married in May and I have great memories of it and hope I get them correct however at 87 Idon't worry about that anymore. They were married at Colonial Church in Prairie Village. The church had just been added onto so someparts were not finished. Our daughter Susan was married first but Sally was taller than Susan and needed her own wedding dress. Sally dressed at the church and my grandaughter Debbie was there with her mother. Debbie wanted to dress there also so Susan was dressing her and while she was stark naked she made a dash out of the room completely nude. She was captured easily and retreived. The wedding committee was fond of Sally and did not tell me the dishwasher did not work as they were sure I would tell them to use paper plates and they did not want to. The wedding went off without any problems and Debbie was well behaved as were my two stepson grandsons. Having the fancy wedding in London reminded me of the great weddings I have had at Colonial Church. Happy Anniversary Sally and Howard.

Jazz Sunday

We find that people go to church on Easter and stay home the next week and two clever men at our church a few years back got the great idea of the Sunday after Easter would be Jazz Sunday. This year if you want a regular service you go to the early service and if not you can stay home or go and her a different kind of service. Sometimes it is a solist and sometimes a quartet and this year I understand it is a small choir made upm of a school choir. It is always excellent as they people in charge spend a great deal of time visiting different groups. Not being unable to attend church myself I do not know if the two men who thought of it are still alive but the traditioon lives on and is well attended. It was a good idea.

Wheelchairs and the Joys of having one

I live in a wheelchair and am grateful they were invented. I understand the first one known about was for King Phillip of Spain in 1595, They kept improving them through the years. I am on my second wheelchair as the screws kept falling out of the arm of my first chair, I don't think Tiny Tim had one as they probably were too expensive so he used a crutch. I get around the house well but it does limit my car rides to places of excitement like church as I also do not stand very well to move into a car, There is an expensive cab sevice which takes me to the doctor's office but is too expensive for regular entertainment. I am just happy they were invented,

Easter egg hunt

When our five were young we had an egg hunt in the house with artifical grass nests. I know Steve use to trade for licorice ones. I have been filling plastic eggs with a toy, a stamp and candy for Sunday School this week and decorating paper sacks with designs for my family. We will dye hard boiled eggs on Saturday. Some will just be dyed but some will be place cards for the Easter table. You write the name on with a birthday candle before you put it in the dye. You are not required to eat your placecard as othera will to it. Here in Shawnee they are going to drop eggs from an airplane. That would be interesting to see. I take it the children are in one place and they drop the eggs in the next field. There is a good turnout at church on Easter to show off new clothes. Growing up we got new shoes. My dress was generally handed down as I was the 3rd girl but shoes were new. I got my first dress not worn by anyone else when I was 12 and it cost $1.98 at J C Penney's on the second floor next to the bank in Topeka. I was gorgeous. HAPPY EASTER.

Holy Week

Holy week is full of things at my church. One thing was and I still think is was soup and sermons where we ladies of the church served soup at noon and a visiting minister gave us a message for the week. The soup was always great as we have great cooks in my church and the ministers were giving one of their best sermons. The people were all friendly. We had one man who always attended just for the soup and sat on the second row. I think he was homeless and it was an even greater meal for him. It made those of us attending and realize how God had been good to us.

World's of Fun

I was wondering how they were opening World's of Fun today and remember when we had an exchange student from Turkey they wanted the students to have a parade. Scott drove Mehmet, our Turkish exchange student out to the Park and there were more countries than students so Scott carried a Japanese flag. He did not look very Japanese as he had very blond hair.