Various memories of my parents that I will add to over time

We called our mother "Mama" or sometimes "Ma." We called our father "Daddy" or sometimes "Dad."

From one of my sisters (Arline):

I am compelled also [to write something]. I remember living at one Lasalle Ave. [in Lawrence, MA]. Living there at first were Mama, Dad, Jacqui (Jackie at the time),  myself and Irene. Richard came later. I remember Jackie and I shared a room with bunk beds, she on top, me on bottom. Jackie, of course, started school before I did so I spent many days alone with Mama while dad worked. I remember Mama used to bake and I would take a nap in the afternoon. When I got up from my nap, sometimes Mama would have saved some brown sugar from her baking for me in the top (cardboard at the time) of the crisco container as a treat. I appreciated that so so much. it made me feel special. (now i am tearing). Then I remember a hot summer day probably in 1943 or 1944 when Mama was sewing something at her sewing machine, which was located in the "front", kind of a sun room facing our street which was a short narrow dead end street.  Kids in the neighborhood were out playing and I remember Jackie had a kind of a halter top on. I remember going in for a drink and saying I was hot. And Mama said, well of course you would like a halter top in this heat also. So she stopped what she was doing and made me a bolero type halter which I wore for the rest of the day and loved it.

From one of my sisters (Irene):

• I remember walking down the street and meeting our mother when she came home from work. that was definitely a highlight of the day.
• Also following Dad around the garden, that's when I learned all about the Red Sox.
• Coming down the stairs and going into the living room on Christmas day and seeing all the presents with all the different colored paper that our mother wrapped for us.
• We often went to different places including Shadow Lake in Massachusetts with my parents and various family members especially my Aunt Rita. She would take us lots of places while my father worked.
• My parents loved to play cards and did so in the evenings quite often with various family members. It was fun watching them play cards. I think they played poker.
• My parents, especially my mother, loved to play Cribbage and scrabble. My mother was really good at scrabble and played this game with us as well as with her 4 sisters. Eventually in the 1980s they started playing Trivial Pursuit and Uno as well. I played Trivial Pursuit with them a couple of times but never had a chance of winning.

From me:

• My mother made most if not all of my halloween costumes. Once she made a halloween costume for me out of crepe paper - I was Judy from the Jetsons, a Saturday morning cartoon from the 1960s. I wish I had a picture of me in that outfit! She also made a Papoos costume for me, and a nurses costume for me among other costumes. I have pictures of both of those costumes.
• My Father learned to use the a computer and the Internet in his 80s. Once when I visited, I showed both my father and mother some things on the computer and on the Internet. My mother really liked learning the things that I showed her and so did my dad.
• I played Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble with my mother and one or more of her sisters and I NEVER won! It was fun though, spending time with my mother and my aunts at something fun.
• I also played Uno with her and my daughter in the later years. We always liked playing games together.

Somebody.... family members that is, please write up some brief memories and send them to me about our parents / grandparents / great-grandparents, etc. Then I will put them here. If they end up long I will make them into stories.

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