The above You Tube is from the movie "You Can't Take It With You." Reminds Chris of my family. Davy and Wayne did like to blow things up and I liked to dance. Most everyone played an instrument. Evy was 1st chair in the school band.
I always knew that our family was a little bit different from other families. Our mom knew that we were all perfect and would never make poor choices. Family life was freewheeling with few boundaries or rules. Promises were never kept-- such as we will have a chicken dinner tonight-- but the dinner turns out to be hot dogs instead. (They must have found a good sale.)
My dad would do things such as take the bridesmaids for his brother, Ernest's, wedding out for ice cream, and show up late for the wedding rehearsal. He never wore a watch. Things just fell into place in an easy manner.
One summer our family was all loaded into our VW Microbus for a trip from Alexandria to Spokane. Grandma and Grandpa S. started to get worried after we had been on the road 15 days. Uncle Hollis predicted that we had gone by way of Texas. Sure enough we had.
L to R-- Mom, me, Jay,Davy,Evy, Dad. I think this was the Nash Rambler Mom and Jay drove to Spokane one year. Wayne must have been asleep when the picture was taken.
Life was not stressful at our house. I felt free to borrow our dining room chairs for a play we put on at the high school. My mom did object to the paint we got on one of the chairs though.
I don't remember any disagreements with my siblings. I did hear that when Wayne was two he became irritated with Davy's teasing one day and decided that he was going to hit him. Davy ran into our folk's bedroom and locked the door. Wayne sat outside the door. Davy tattled to Mom that Wayne was going to hit him. Mom chose not to get involved. Davy climbed out the bedroom window to escape. (Davy says it was the upstairs bathroom he locked himself in to and he climbed out that window. He said Evy played 1st chair music but sat in second chair.)
So we lived Proverbs 17:22 in those days-- "A cheerful heart is good medicine."
That Davy was smart!
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