Maureen Remembers The One Armed Swimmer and the Mermaid

• perfect attendance in grade school
• typing pins on my uniform
• shorthand pins on my uniform
• Daddy swimming and using only one arm
• Mommie body surfing and trying not to get her hair wet
• Mary's long curly hair
• Meg's long blonde braids
• Chrissy's perfect bangs
• Eileen floating on her back in the ocean then making like a mermaid
• jitterbug
• lining up in front of the fireplace for pictures
• Christmas stockings with holes in the toes
• Gerald and Petey
• decorating the Christmas tree one tinsel strand at a time