My 20th birthday found me in my second year of college and first year of nursing school. I had not been chosen for the dance team and no one was dating me. I remember feeling rather fretful about both situations and knowing I could do very little to change either. I cried in my pillow some days and wondered what was wrong with me. My advice would be "don't fret, God has a grand plan for you, be patient and you will see miracles and goodness very soon." In the end, the dance team leaders came and asked if I would come back as they had lost a dancer. I was thrilled to do so. I was a quick learner and ended up dancing every other dance in a performance in Burley, Idaho. Ray asked me out for the first time a month after my birthday. Before the year was out I would be married and expecting our first child.
At a very young age I don't remember toys as much as I remember exploring and climbing trees. When I was middle school age I remember two christmas gifts that I just loved. One was a race car track that did a loopty loop. The cars were powered by rolling them backward and letting go. The other was a wood burning tool. If only I had been a bit more creative I could have made lots of fun stuff. I also loved the little wooden walking toys and would play with them at Payless Drug store while mom shopped. Some worked on a slope some you had to wind up. I wasn't much for dolls or kitchen stuff.
Our vacations were always to visit family. We went to Salmon, Idaho moslty. My sister Selma and her family lived there. I remember trips in the summer and winter. Going to the hotsprings pool with snow all around. I learned to swim there and watch my dad sit where the hot water entered the pool. Whew! way to hot for me. I remember visiting the farm where my mom grew up. You had to cross a rickety wooden bridge over a small creek to get to the house. I used to worry that it may not hold us. I could imagine my mother riding a horse down that lane to go to school. George Stoddard, Selma's husband, had a bee hive in the shed behind their house. We knew to keep our distance but he did have a glass beehive in the house where we could watch the bees working in the honey comb. Out their back yard and across the street was a family with kids we would go to play with. There were half round wagon ...
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