Picture Day - Disneyland Past

Two "projects" have come together this week.  One my continued scanning of pictures from my childhood and secondly my own kids trip to Disney World.  While still unaware of that trip sharing pictures from this trip has been one of many little things my husband and I have been subtly bringing up knowing perfectly well that it is making our kids oh so desperate to go.  We've been "flaming the fire" so to speak so that the day we tell them the day will hold as much excitement and anticipation as possible.

Each of these little hints have been given in such a way that it hasn't made them suspicious in the least. They've been small hints after all and always related to actual going ons in our house.  Individually they don't mean much but I'm sure when they've found out they will look back on all these little hints with dawning recognition.

Now onto the pictures of the week, my first and only Disney trip to Disneyland with my family and Aunt.  

Despite having few memories the overall feeling I get when I think back to this trip is happiness and I know I had fun.  From all the pictures it's clear that we really did love each and every minute of it.   Fingers crossed that this years Disney trip results in just as much joy.

Picture day - Dog or Cat

I think I understand why some people will often say that they are dog people or cat people.  Many people will when asked if they prefer one pet over another will answer quite resolutely. I’m a dog person, or I’m a cat person.  I almost always find that those answers stem from a single childhood experience which was good or bad or sometimes even neutral that they had with a pet.

I was quite lucky to have had wonderful experiences with pets of all shapes and sizes growing up and into adulthood so I am neither I just love all pets. Wait scratch that I wasn’t too fond of my husband’s tarantula, icky spiders.  One thing is certain for me however and that is that my home is not complete without an animal wandering about.

Some pets are of course recalled with more affection than others.  Three stand out in my mind.

Scooter my cat.  It’s not hard to reason why she will always be the first pet I think of as I got her at the age of 5 and she remained a part of my life for 24 years.  She was affectionate and smart and she worshiped the ground I walked on.  I was her person I suppose you would say, she allowed me to dress her up in bonnets and doll clothes without complaint and never failed to choose my lap over someone else’s.

Duchesse the first dog I really remember was silly and not all that smart but loveable all the same.   She is also the mother of the dog who really did capture my heart.  Born under my brother’s bed I was the one to find him and after exclaiming “there’s a puppy under here!” Kody was cemented into my memory as one of the best things ever.

My two favorites got along in a way that many cats and dogs do not, they played together slept together and sometimes cuddled with me together.  It is something I’ve always hoped my own children would get to experience with their own pets and luckily enough Lucy and Chase are as great a pair to them as Scooter and Kody were to me.  

100 word Rambling - Pictures

The back reads-Mom worried about moving day
I'm assuming the caption is written in my Mom's hand as this is my grandmother.

A month or so ago I began a project of scanning old pictures.  I finished my own a while back and so this past weekend I collected my parent’s albums to start going through them.  The last few days I’ve spent immersed in the tangle of photos and I’m enjoying myself greatly as I flip through stack after stack sometimes smiling at a distant memory.  Some I’ve never seen before or were taken long before I was born yet some of those ones seem to speak to me the loudest and like this one I love them all the same.