I watched Martha’s new show today and it was great!
I must confess to really liking Martha Stewart. She’s a GENius!
She has CHANGED the way we all live! From the way food is photographed for magazines and cookbooks, to what we can buy at K-Mart. She taught me to make everything special.

I never once thought Martha did everything herself. She says she is a teacher.

I had a good teacher growing up, too. My mother.

a meme, n, (mem): is an idea that is shared and passed from blog to blog, like a question posted in one blog and answered in many other blogs.

This week, the challenge is "10 Memories from Your School Years".

1. I remember always wanting to fit in. Be like everyone else. I’m still sort of that way.
2. Trying out for cheerleading in 7th grade and 8th grade and not making it. I realized it was because the older girls chose the new cheerleaders and nobody knew me. I really wanted to be a cheerleader then. Eventually, I became a high school cheerleader and had a blast.
3. In junior high, us girls had slumber parties almost every other weekend. we’d stay up most of the night and have seances and "lift" each other by placing two fingers under a girl laying on the ground. II didn’t believe any of it, but it was alot of fun!
4. I remember a day in 6th grade when I went to the David Cassidy concert. I could not eat lunch. I still can feel and smell that lunch room that day, and looking out the windows, waiting to go!
5. I remember being the new kid in 4th grade and again in 9th grade. It was hard. I think I was a quiet kid and it took a while to make friends. But I made a great friend, Laura, in 4th grade.
6. I could never pass the Presidential Physical Fitness Test.
7. In 4th or 5th grade, we played "horses" at recess. We all acted like horses and ran around.
8. Oh, in 10th grade, I was in the play "Oklahome" and my crush, Jerry Wiedemeier, was my dance partner. Heaven!
9. I was editor of my high school newspaper my senior year and our "office" was a broom closet under the stairs. I went in there whenever I had free time. We typed the news on a TYPEWRITER back then!
10. Uniforms!
This is a picture of me and my brother, Pete, on the first day of school…probably back in like 1977. My uniform is a plaid skirt and a green vest.
Okay, Ruth, I’m TAGGING YOU!!!

I am her fan.
I found her in cyberspace and laugh and laugh at her blog. She drinks diet coke and doesn’t wear a bra and goes to WalMart.
I am a Target Girl but I drink Diet Coke and wear sweat pants!!!

Ruth, Don’t Stop.

I made a Party in a Box for Megan. I was thinking she could share it with her roommate or friends on her floor. I don’t think she will.

When I was in college,  I was friends with my "neighbors" in the dorm. My roomies and I got along great. I even fixed one up and she married him! I made us all matching pajamas for Christmas one year. We kept our doors open and played music and danced in the halls. We cried together when bad things happened. We shared the joys of good grades and dates and dinners out when parents came to town.

I’m not particularly close to those girls anymore. Sometimes I want to call them up when I hear or see something that reminds me of those times back then.

When times were so simple.
Back in college.
When my life was beginning. And the road was so open.

I had a wonderful college experience. I hope my daughter does, too. I hope she takes advantage of this time, to make friends and go to events and enjoy herself. To sit in the dining hall and just talk. To study with another classmate and help each other "get it".

The kid with the big bass drum is my baby.

Tim and Wendy.
Watching the Nebraska Game last Saturday and celebrating Wendy’s birthday.

They are the cutest couple in the world and make even cuter children!!!