Desperation

The shear panic when the cable went out!

Despite the fact the problem may not have even been on our end, we tried everything to get our TV shows back! 😅📺

Cable

Oh the humanity! What is a child to do when they suddenly lose access to hundreds of channels! 🤔😅

Rain

I feel like this captures what it's been like trying to maintain our yards this year.

We've had rain storms almost daily, so it's been challenging finding time to mow in between the rain. 😳🌧 

Distance

Back in the day, my father leased the car he drove to work. Unfortunately, his office was so far away from home, he'd rack up more mileage on the car than allowed on the lease!

I remember one time he brought his car to the dealer, the salesperson literally laughed when my father told them the mileage on the odometer! 😅 🚗

Dealin with It

 A great way to guarantee boredom when I was younger...take me to a car dealership!

When it was time to invest in a new family car, my father would take us all to the dealership. A decent negotiator, he'd often counter the counter offer of a counter offer from the car salesman. The family had to try our best to wait patiently while the salesperson went back and forth to "talk to their manager"! 😅 🚗 

Farmer Tan

I may have tanned fairly easily from all my time outside under the summer sun, but since I always wore a T-shirt, there was a very distinct line where my shirt covered my upper arms. Going sleeveless was NOT a good look. 😅

Tan

I may have gotten sunburnt, but after a day or two, it turned into a nice tan. My sister, on the other hand, had an entirely different skin complexion - she could spend hours in the sun, but she'd never seemed to tan.

Sure, it may have been discouraging at the time, when other children her age were getting tans, but it was probably a good thing in the long run the sun didn't have that affect on her. 😊☀️

The Burn

I loved running around the neighborhood with friends during the summer! We'd spend most of the day outdoors, so by the evening I could already begin to feel the sting of sunburn on my skin. The next day, I'd be as red as a lobster! 😳☀️

The Fall

 

Whenever I see one of those wall-mounted nightstands in a hotel room, I'm reminded of the time I managed to fall into one.

My parents would tell me when I was very little, I was asleep on the hotel bed. My parents had set it up so I had barriers to keep me from rolling off, but somehow I still managed to roll right out bed, cracking my head on the corner of the nightstand on my way down.

The impact created a pretty bad gash on my forehead, and I began bleeding pretty badly.

Once my father found out where the nearest hospital was from the hotel staff, he rushed me there in the family car. I was too young to remember all the details myself, but when my father would recall the incident, he'd tell me there was so much blood in the car, he didn't know if I was going to make it.

Luckily, I was okay, albeit bandaged up for a while until the wound on my head healed.

Though I may have been too young to remember all the details myself, I've been told the story over and over again to the point I feel a little traumatized when I see one of those hotel nightstands. 🤕