At the end of Day One, Beth asks us to share a little about our lives when we were young, including the size of your family, your town and the foods you regularly ate. I think this is a great way to get to know a few more little details about one another. Please add whatever additional details you would like to share.
Emily:
I am the second oldest girl in a family of seven. There are four sisters and a youngest brother. I grew up in a small town in Nebraska of 2000 people. My family ate pot roast every Sunday. Isn't it funny that is the one thing I remember consistently eating?
Lisa:
ReplyDeleteI am the oldest of only 2, my sister being 22 months younger than me. We never really close growing up, and part of that was a lot of competition. I have always been close to my parents, especially my mom, and she resented that. We still deal with this a little bit, but are much closer than we've ever been. We grew up in several different states due to my dad's engineering job with Conoco. I was born in Billings, MT, but lived in Houston, Tx, Aurora, CO, Ponca City, OK, Houston, TX and finally in Aurora where I lived from 8th grade to now! My mom had about 7 meals that she rotated every week, but we were definitely meat a midwest meat and potato family! She made a different form of potatoes with just about every meal: mashed, riced, backed, twice baked, scalloped, cheesy, etc! There was always a vegetable and usually jello - served several different ways as well!
Jill:
ReplyDeleteI was born and raised in Omaha Nebrask, and stayed there until 2001. I am the youngest in my small immediate family. I only have one brother who is 6 years older than me. Who I always adored, even though I was jealous of him, for 1) being older. I couldnt understand why he could do so much more than me, and 2) for being a boy as my dad always would say "Girls cant do this or that". So I frequently felt like a second class citizen. My parents never got along and there was lots of tension in my house. My mom worked either late afternoons into the evenings or the overnight shift. And my dad owned a bar so he was never home. So my mom would frequently make a huge roast with veggies in the crock pot so my brother and I could make sandwiches out of it or heat it up in the microwave ourselves if she was at work. We always had lots of fruits in the house also.