MEMORY-IAL DAY
Memorial Day…or better yet MEMORY-IAL DAY. It’s kind of hard to think about the start of summer 2009 and not harken back to the start of summer all those years as a kid. I can still remember that pink bikini my Mom bought to kick off summer 1982. I remember thinking this is going to be the best summer of my life…I wore that suit all weekend long and got so sun burned that my skin color made the suit not so pink compared to my face and chest. But, the idea of the best summer of my life kept reoccurring each and every year on that special long weekend.
Now, as a mother and wife, the weekend is still filled with the anticipation of the best summer of my life, it just requires different planning. Now, I’m the one buying the cute matching bathing suits for my three men and worrying about having enough sun block to avoid the burning.
It used to be spending the day playing games at the boardwalk on the Jersey shore hoping I would come home with a stuffed Smurf Â… now it’s making sure that both my sons win the same exact prize so my husband and I can have a peaceful drive home without fighting over who won the biggest, coolest prize. It used to be 12 hour days of playing Charlie’s Angles with all the neighborhood kids…I was always Farrah and my sister was Kate…we started after breakfast and went home to get flashlights when it got too dark. Now, it’s TOTALLY changed, I’m playing Power Rangers and I’m always the Green Ranger. I still don’t know how we play, but hey it’s summer and my boys are including me in the game.
I guess the point is that Memorial Day kicks off all the wonderful possibilities of long summer days, star filled nights, MMC Summer Fridays and MEMORY-IAL DAYS.
