Daily Archive: November 13, 2003

Package Dance results were good for me today as there were 2 waiting in the mailbox when I got home, and they weren’t Christmas presents so I could open them right away and they were all BOOKS! goody goody (thanks mom!) One of the packages was 4 books for the kids, and what a stroke of genius my mom had: she sent a SUPERHEROES coloring book for Karin. As she saw it and picked it up, she crowed, “Oh oh oh oh Batman!!!” LOL Then the kids sang the Batman TV theme song, which mind you, they’ve never seen, all...

Reading several people’s blogs/journals about their childhood with angry fathers made me realize once again how lucky I was. My family wasn’t spectacularly dysfunctional, and my dad didn’t start drinking until I was a teenager. Or at least I didn’t notice the effects until I was a teenager. My parents were spankers, within the limits of reasonableness, until I was about 5-6, then I don’t remember being spanked except once, and I deserved it. Seems like everyone got spanked in the 70’s 🙂 We were living in Nebraska so I would have been somewhere around 8-9 years old. We had...