MY YEARS AS A CHILD 3

My next older sibling is my sister MLC.  She and I were four years apart and we were best of friends. We had a funeral one time with our dolls. The dolls were left out in the sun and got cracked and the rubber on them melted. We felt sorry for them and had a little funeral over them. We buried them in our back yard.  MLC was the preacher and I was the mourning parent.

We continued to be close over the years. I would go baby sitting with her and play with the little kids she watched. Then she got a boy friend and I watched the kids while she talked on the phone all night. And you know what? She got the money! But I loved her and kept doing it.

We were so close that she would lie to our mother and I would swear she was telling the truth. My parents were very strict. We could not spend the night with any of our friends nor could our friends spend the night at our house. We were not allowed to go any place with out them knowing, and one day we got caught. I was with MLC and her friend MD and we were just walking down the highway when MD’s aunt came by and saw us, but we didn't see her.  When we got home mommy asked why we were on the high way and not the street we were supposed to be on. I knew by the way mommy reacted that this time I could not lie. So I told her before my sister could start with the lie. Mommy just said next time walk on the street and because we told her the truth we were not in trouble.

You know that is a lot like God. You have to be honest with Him, telling Him the truth, because you cannot lie to God. He sees and hears everything.

I was next and then there was my baby sister LMG. As you know in the beginning she was a thorn in my side when we were little. Then we became very close and still are. I loved my baby sister. I thought she was a doll. I was 4 years old when she was born. But we played together all the time and when she had friends over we all played together and the same with my friends. My sisters MLC, LMG and myself did lots of things together.

MLC would be our waitress in the morning for breakfast and serve us what we ordered. Then when we were done she asked to be paid, knowing we didn't have any money. So we had to clean the kitchen and wash the dishes. Next time she wanted to play waitress we said no way. We never got candy, only on Halloween and at Christmas.  I don't remember any of my birthdays. We never got cake either. So on our birthday, MLC would put a slice of bread on a plate then cover it with chocolate syrup and another slice of bread and cover it. She would put a candle on it then we would eat it just the 3 of us. It was so good.

Wondering where my mom was during these times. She was sleeping she always slept late.

LMG and I would make pies out of clover. Play with cars in the dirt. The three of us would be outside all day. We did get to walk to the city pool in the summer but we’d better be back when mommy told us to or we would be punished.

As I said my mother was a late sleeper and when we went to grade school we got an hour and 1/2 for lunch break to come home to eat. Many times we had to fend for our selves because she was still sleeping and this was from 11:00 am-12:30 pm. My dad was working at a factory now and worked from 11:00pm till 7:00am.  So when he came home he would go to bed and sleep until around 3 or 4 in the afternoon. So all summer we were out side all day and in the winter we had to be very quite so we would not wake him up. I don't know how many times we got told to quit down.

That is about all I can remember about my life as a child. I will continue with my life as a teenager.

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MY YEARS AS A CHILD 2

As I said before, I had four sisters and one brother.

My oldest sister, MJB, was born in 1933. I remember very little of her when we were all home. She worked at Franklin's Ice Cream store. When us kids went to the city pool to go swimming, we had to go right past the store. On the way home we would stop in and she would give us an ice cream cone. I remember one time we stopped in and we sat up at the counter and she ask us" What'll you have" and our baby sister LMG said loud and clear "Paps Blue Ribbon." Pabst was a popular beer at the time.

MJB had a boy friend and he would always bring her candy when he picked her up for a date. They would take me with them when they went out on a date. I really liked him. And I remember her wedding day she got married in our living room. Everyone was happy and full of food and drinks.

My next sister EMW was born in 1936 and I remember very little of her, too. I know she had 2 boy friends at one time. She did marry one of them. And her and her friend, a neighbor, would dress up in different clothes and take each others picture. When we were younger, there is 8 years between us, and when it would rain in the summer her and I would go outside and run throw the puddles. She went off to Indiana to get married. that is about all I remember of her.

Now for my brother WEM who was born in 1938. I would clean his room for him for 10 cents a week. It was mostly his socks he left on the floor. But I adored my big brother because he would play games with us girls. He would have us all lined up in a row beside the neighbor's barn and throw a tennis ball at us and we had to try to keep from getting hurt. He would always play ball with us. But we better do as he said or we were in big trouble.

We had a ditch in our back yard and daddy had built a bridge over it. It was where our toilet was. I would always look around for my brother before crossing the bridge because if he caught me on the bridge he would pretend he was going to push me in. I would hang onto the edge of the bridge with my toes.

I have always been afraid of the water. I remember one time my oldest sister slipped on the bridge and fell into the ditch. She smoked and no one knew it until then because her cigarette  floated on the top of the water. When the ditch would dry out we would play billy goat gruff under the bridge. When my brother was young and still played with cars, I would take his cars outside in the dirt and play with them. He never got mad at me and some times we would play on our kitchen table. It was that old white porcelain and WEM would draw streets on the table and we played cars on it. Other then that I didn't remember seeing my brother much as he was always out running around with his friend. But never got into any trouble that I know of.

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