Summer 2011 and Before

Time passes quickly the older you get.   It seems like just yesterday we were getting ready to start a new century.   Everyone was all worried about what would happen.  Would the world end, would the computers crash and the list went on and on.

We had friends in Winchester that were just sure the end of the world was near.   Of course, that was the type of churches we had down there.

Then came 9/11.   It was an unbelievable day that this could be happening in the U.S.   And how our world has changed since then.

I think of what my life was like growing up and how different our grandchildren's lives are.  We had no T.V., no Interstates, never took a vacation, and the Internet?   Well, that was something we would of thought of as outerspace talk.   We never heard the word RAPE, there were no murders, no one was abducted from their homes, and everyone knew everyone elses business.   We played hide-n-go-seek in the whole town.   I think of the people that helped raise me.   Our little one horse town was a pretty good place to grow up - especially since I had the ONE HORSE there.


Not long ago our oldest grandaughter quizzed me on how things were different when I grew up.   She asked some questions and wanted to know how I felt about how teen agers dress today.  I told her I didn't mind too much, I just wished they'd keep themselves covered more.   She giggled at that.   Then she asked if I'd prefer to go back to that way of living.

No siree.   Not this old gal.   I like having air conditioning in my home and car and I like having the Internet and oh so many more things we now have.

I often think of our parents and how much harder they had to work to get through a week just to survive.  Laundry was a big deal.  Not much else got done that day but then we only did laundry once a week.  My mother had to hang things in her dining room to dry so it was nothing to come home and work your way through sheets, dresses, jeans, socks and who knows what else just to get to the kitchen.  I never heard her complain but I'm sure she would of LOVED to of just gone in the other room and turned on the washer.

My mother never took an airplane flight in her entire life.   I was in my 40's before I had my first trip.  ALL of our grandchildren have flown and two have been to Ecuador.   Goodness.  

And all of a sudden here we are in 2011 headed toward 2012.   January will be here before we know it and all of a sudden it will be July 2012.  

I would really like for all our grandchildren to be able to take a step back into that time frame just for 24 hours.   I'm sure they would be BORED and wonder how on earth we survived.  I don't ever remember being BORED.