I Remember...

- wading through the irrigation water with pants rolled up

- mom's thread-bare blue housecoat

- sliding down the stairs on an old mattress

- stuffing faces full of fruit

- Madame Alexander dolls in "church"

- the year-supply room fort

- enough outdoors to keep children occupied

- the trampoline

- dad walking through the garage door covered in saw dust

- Gogey shutting the door in her own face before finishing a thought

- climbing up the walls in the hallway with our feet

- taking a drive with Stacy when mom got mad at me

- sitting on Ty's lap in church while I heard him sing "I Stand All Amazed"

- Michael telling me that I'm a good sister

- family pictures on the stairs

- Granny hanging a clothes line minutes after they parked their motorhome next to the house

- Melodee knowing how to get me out of a bad mood by dancing silly

- Hobie nearly giving himself a concussion

- Stacy fleeing out of the fire escape

- Michael's medical maladies

- Dressing up in costumes in the year supply room