This Reminds Me

Archive for July 25th, 2009

Julia flew home today after two weeks in Houston visiting family.  She expressed quite a bit of pre-flight trepidation about flying alone,  but we weren’t even to baggage claim before she started asking me when she could do it again.  I think many of her pre-flight jitters were soothed by (softy) Joe buying her a water bottle, bag of pretzels and bubble gum for the arduous 50-minute sojourn west.

Keith had a surprise waiting for her:  Her first camera.  She’s been asking for one for more than a year.  Keith caught the Disney Pix-Max on a Woot-Off for $30.  Wow, it’s fun!  You can take plain 3MP pictures (yawn), or add Disney characters into your photos either as you take them, or during editing.

Toddler Lois was Power Ranger fan.  She and Rachel used to argue over who got to be the Pink Ranger.

This camera is a “stitch!”

Maybe Winnie can help me make shrimp fried rice tonight?  That’s on the menu, with grilled catfish.

I had a camera when I was nine years old also.  Judy gave it to me for Christmas, and I thought it was the coolest thang EVER because it took amazing black and white photos, like this prize showing me ready for church in a dress my mom had sewn (I am squirming just looking at it, feeling the scratchy full petticoat and the headband cutting off circulation to my brain.)

As Clark Griswold would say, “It’s the old family truckster.”

My nickname at Remco TV Rental was “Flash,” because of my always-clicking Nikon.

So please meet….Flash Junior!