Throwback Thursday!

Maybe I will occasionally start doing TBT posts as long as if there is a story to go with it.  We will see how long this lasts.  Heck I still have about 3 unfinished posts to work on. I always get a great idea for a post, start it and then take forever to finish it or don't post it at all. 

Anyway I was just thinking about my mom this morning when I was loading the washer.  She would always give me crap for putting too many clothes in the washer so there wouldn't be enough room for them to agitate around.  So of course I had the washer filled almost to the top with no water added yet in order to get it all done in one load.  I looked at it and thought mom would give me so much crap for this right now.  LOL!  So I went ahead and took some clothes out.  Hopefully she will be proud of me.  Love you mom!

My wedding rehearsal dinner July 2005

By the way we were given that frame at her funeral.  I put this picture in it and has remained in there displayed in my living room ever since.  Okay how about a couple more funny memories with mom that first come to my mind?  One of my personal favorites is when she was sitting at one end of the kitchen table and I was at the other end wrapping a Christmas present for a friend.  I think it was a pair of earrings.  After I got done wrapping it, I said something like, "Dangit!  I cannot believe what I just did!"  Mom says, "What?"  I said, "I just wrapped this box and forgot to put the earrings inside the box."  She starts laughing and calls me a Pollock (have no idea how to spell that word) because Cichos is Polish. 

Before we knew I had an eye disease, I would all the time drop things on the floor near me and wouldn't be able to find them on the floor.  I would always call mom into my room and ask her to help me find it.  She would come into the room and immediately see it.  Then she would always say, "Don't be afraid to look a little if you can't find it."  I think she always thought maybe I was being lazy or something because it would be clearly out in the open.  But now when I look back at all those times I realized I couldn't find things on the floor because of my vision and my blind spots.  Explains everything!

One time mom and I were in the car going to Meijer and I was driving.  Sometimes when I am in the car driving and talking (especially with someone I haven't seen in awhile), I tend to not pay attention to where we are going.  I am too busy watching the road and talking I forget where we are going.  So this particular time I am rambling on to mom and right when were passing Meijer she interrupts and says, "Aren't we going to Meijer?"  I am like, "Crap!" 

One of my favorite not normal pics

I don't know who took this picture but when they were taking it I believe I was purposely posing like this.  And what I love is the look on moms face as she is laughing at me.  This picture makes me smile every time I see it.  And it looks like dad was about to answer the phone or just hung up the phone.  :-)

Lastly, another one of my favorite moments was when we were in the Smokey Mountains.  We were doing this scenic drive through the mountains with our car windows down.  We approached this lookout point and there appeared to be a family spreading ashes onto the mountains.  It was a little windy and the ashes were flying around and the people were even coughing while dumping it.  First dad makes a comment about being here at the wrong time.  Then as were parking the car, he starts singing "Dust in the Wind."  Mom and I start laughing hysterically while trying not to make a scene as this family is spreading some person's ashes onto the mountain.  If memory serves I think we decided not to get out of the car and we left in respect for the other family.  I will never forget that moment and how much we laughed at it.  I am just so grateful we got to go on this trip together the fall before she passed away. 

Love the look on her face in this pic too.  Most likely laughing at me or dad being dorks as usual.  :-)   This was taken in our cabin in Gatlinburg, TN (Fall 2007).

My silly mother wearing Stone's sunglasses