The Journal Jar!

[Mary Kay]

This is an idea a friend of mine had on face book. We have a great big jar fillled with daily questions. Each day I am around I will post a question from the jar. Answer as you see fit! Just don't revel too much or get too serious.
here we go!

Today's question:
What was a Sunday like for you as a kid?

 

[jj2]

There was nine of us kids.
Don't know how my mom managed.8-o

My Dad was an alcoholic so money was tight so we did a lot of soup, pasta, & hamburger.
Sunday was church and Fried Chicken, mashed potatoes, and gravy.
It only varied when we had a roast.
Then it was rest and relaxation.

 

[beebopnjazz]

Waking to the smell of sauce (umm...gravy...depending on what part of the country you're from) [homemade spaghetti sauce]-my mom browning the meatballs, italian sausage and ribs - adding it to the tomato sauce - knowing that come lunch time my mom would sneak out a meatball for me with a big hunk of fresh italian bread.

As an adult I know full well how much work goes into making 'sauce' - my mom made it every Sunday - in the fall through the winter I've been making it every other week - my kids know just walking up the sidewalk if they've been out- they can smell the garlic and onions being sauteed ......a good 40 feet from the house

 

[Mary Kay]

It was toast and coffee, a rush to get dressed then out of the house for Church. When we got back mom would make a nice Sunday dinner, chicken, roast or fish (if grandpa and the uncles had been fishing on Sat.)
because i was a kid I could go play till dinner, but then I had dishes..mom and grandma made a mess! I always clean as I go as a result! No matter what we had I could count on Grandma saving every last leftover for us to eat untill it was gone!

 

[Devilooman]

At one point in my childhood we went to church on Sundays and then to the same chinese restaurant. For a while after I started going back to church I would smell this chinese restaurant in my head as soon as we went through the door. It was wonderful! I have never been able to find a chinese restaurant that smelled as good as that one.

 

[Skyler]

Our Sundays were a day of rest and relaxation. We ate breakfast and were off to church. After church we would stop in at Friendly's Ice Cream and take a Sunday joy ride to Vermont. I'm originally from New England so the ride wasn't like 22 hrs or anything like that. Vermont has great memories for me. It is the prettiest state in the fall. I remember Vermont more than anything.

 

[Mary Kay]

What did you do on your very first date!
Remberber..P.G. and not too much info!

 

[beebopnjazz]

Met my DH on the first day of school - I was a freshman at 1 school and he was a senior at a rival school - he was on the football team and the first date was to 1 of the football games - after we walked and talked and split an order of fries over a couple of cokes.

 

[jj2]

To the movies. His parents drove us and was to pick us up after it was over.
But, just in case, my mom gave me bus fare.
He moved out of town the following summer, and I can't remember his last name.

 

[sleepy jean]

When I was 15, I told my parents I was staying at a friends house, which I was, but we snuck out and went with 2 boys, I don't really remember that we did much but cruise Bellflower Blvd, I guess you could call that my first date. Good thing my dad did'nt find out or I would have got my .... kicked real good, I was'nt allowed to date till I was 16.

 

[Mary Kay]

I was allowed to group date (lots of kids going to the same place with our parents driving)
When I was finally 16, I went with my boyfriend to another friends party. I thought I was in heaven! Kept that boyfriend for 2 1/2 years. I saw him last November at my groups Charity dance!

 

[Mary Kay]

What car did your parents have when you were little!

We had a Chevy! Not this pretty..but nice.

 

[sleepy jean]

We had a big old Black 4 door, I think it was a chrysler, but I not sure, I just remember it was huge, we kids used to play a game standing up in the back seat when dad was driving around curves in the mountain's, I can't recall ever seeing any picture's of it either, going to have to look through mom's old album's now that I'm thinking about it.

 

[Devilooman]

We had a station wagon.. not sure of the make. One of those big suckers with the wood paneling down the side. I have many great memories from the station wagon. Riding in the seat in the back that faced the wrong way, riding on a bed in the back for long trips, etc. Miss the station wagon days, lol.

 

[jj2]

I can't remember what kind when I was little, but the one I used to get my driver's license was a Buick. It was hugh compared to the cars today and it didn't have power steering and the left turn signal didn't work!!!

 

[beebopnjazz]

I think it was a Falcon - then onto a Comet. My aunt had a big black cadillac - fins and all! LOL

 

[PatriciafromCO]

question # 1, on Sunday we went to church, then it was a treat to go eat at a reasurant after church some times, tv was turned off on Sundays, we play a family board game in the kitchen as my Mom was making a large dinner that day that would be the base of food for the week meals.

question #2 not allowed to date

question #3 we had a monte carlo is the first car I remember us having, I remember becasue lol, my dad always being so angry at it... lol lol

 

[Mary Kay]

What were you best friends like in jr. High?

My 2 best friends from 1963 and the 7th grade are still my two best friends!
One was funny and a dancer, she had a room full of dolls (kind of creepy when we hd sleepovers! She had a North Carolina family that decended in the summer..lots of her cousins to hang with! She was spoiled rotten but she was never a brat about it! Never had a chore in her life!
The other one was quiet and pretty, she was part of the popular clique, but was never ever mean. She had the hardest life, her mom worked and left the cooking and cleaning to her (at 12) as well as taking care of her baby sister. her older brother did nothing but mow the lawn. The three of us cleaned her house everyday so she could have some free time.
My sister and I only had housecleaning on sat. and did dishes during the week. I guess I was right in between. Still am!

 

[jj2]

Like you, I had two really good friends.

I have no idea where the brainy one is---she went off to college, got married to an older guy---that’s when we lost touch.

The other went into the service after high school. Her parents were really controlling and it was a case of rebellion. She got married, got divorced, and after getting discharged, she moved back to Illinois. Not too long ago, she got remarried and is relatively happy.

I’ll always remember the time we got bored one night and headed out to where everyone parked---you know the make out place.
We ran around pounding on hoods—a couple times we got on the car and ran from the back to the front. The last one, when we looked back, I saw my brother sit up and he didn’t have a shirt on.
He was ...... too.8-o
He never said anything later---probably because he didn’t want me saying anything to mom.

Otherwise, I never did anything bad.

 

[sleepy jean]

I hd a lot of friend in Jr high but propably my best friend was a sweet sweet girl that moved to calif from Minn, she stayed over at my house alot and we had a lot of fun together, our families were friends when my folks lived back east so we would have family get togethers to, she had to move back to Minn in her freshman year, we stayed in contact through letters and a phone calls now and then, then when I was a soph my family took a trip back to Minn and I got to stay at her house for about 4 days. have'nt heard from her in many many years, and don't even know were she live's.