Fond Memory No. 1

By Heather

Some memories just stick with you. Some have no significance at all but you remember them. This particular one is just special to me because it was something out of the ordinary. When I was a kid, I'd say around fourteen maybe fifteen years old it was just me, my brother BG and my dad. My mom was off at SRD. SRD is something that members of TOPS weight loss group go to. It lasts about three to four days so in that time it was just us three. Now I love my mother more than I can put into words but at this time she was going through the beginnings of menopause and she was for lack of a better term (crazy). Not "I'm gonna kill you and rip off your face crazy" but still not herself. She would fly off the handle if you dropped a can of beans.

But while she was away during these times there was no cooking in the house, there was just eating out. Maybe one morning one of us would be ambitions enough to pour a bowl of cereal or make a piece of toast. So on Sunday was when we would go somewhere nice after church and this time around it was a restaurant in the mall. This place the meals were so big that they looked like as soon as you took a bite it grew back. Now my dad is a comfortable home body and if he's not at church or out for dinner on Sunday he's at home passed out asleep in his sleep shorts in the recliner. But for some reason this Sunday after dinner he said lets take a walk around the mall. So we all started walking together, I held my dad and my brother's hands as we walked because its not all the time we get to spend a day together so I took those moments when I could get them and just enjoy it. We walked into a Game Stop and my brother and me are gamers so we looked at the new titles that were out and some of the older classics that we didn't yet have but have played. Now usually anything over twenty five dollars if me or my brother wanted it we'd have to earn the money to buy it ourselves so this was a surprise when dad said go ahead and get what you want. I don't remember what my brother got but I got my own copy of Lunar SSSC for PlayStation. It was something so simple but it wasn't something that he normally did and it was just something very nice and sweet that he did. He also stopped off at the Dairy Owl on the way home and bought all of us ice cream. It was just such a good day. Now every time I think of a game to play just to play I always grab that game. Yeah the storyline is predictable and often corny but I love that game because it is a nice feel good game.

And that is my fond memory for this post.

I love you dad.