Remembering Aunt Colleen...
You know Pat, Kathy and Rob, Your mom practiced on Loretta and I before she had you - in fact before she was married. I trust we did a good job training her. She was awesome and you must miss her incredibly. Along with Aunt Nora and Aunt Maureen, they were our primary care givers when we were at Granddaddys'.
One of the things that comes to mind is her response if someone said something was funny, she wanted to know: "Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Queer"? She had quite the sence of humor. I suppose her kids inherited it. I can still see and hear her laugh in my mind. She also used to always say: "Quick, quick like a bunny" - In retrospect of course she was not the originator of these sayings, but they always remind me of her.
I inherited her technical ability. Its taken me a few years to figure out the TV remote. And now I'm conquering blogging. I've also been told I look like her (its the white hair) - some of us are just lucky eh Rob?
Blogging is a little more complicated than blabbing, but if I can do it so can the rest of you out there. Even with Pat's directions, I still had to phone him and he walked me through it without even a hint of condensation. We've got an incredible family and a very easy and convenient way to say in touch, so lets hear from the rest of the Barrys, Benningers, Bochslers, Corsinis, Fords, Gallaghers, Mathews,
You know Pat, Kathy and Rob, Your mom practiced on Loretta and I before she had you - in fact before she was married. I trust we did a good job training her. She was awesome and you must miss her incredibly. Along with Aunt Nora and Aunt Maureen, they were our primary care givers when we were at Granddaddys'.
One of the things that comes to mind is her response if someone said something was funny, she wanted to know: "Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Queer"? She had quite the sence of humor. I suppose her kids inherited it. I can still see and hear her laugh in my mind. She also used to always say: "Quick, quick like a bunny" - In retrospect of course she was not the originator of these sayings, but they always remind me of her.
I inherited her technical ability. Its taken me a few years to figure out the TV remote. And now I'm conquering blogging. I've also been told I look like her (its the white hair) - some of us are just lucky eh Rob?
Blogging is a little more complicated than blabbing, but if I can do it so can the rest of you out there. Even with Pat's directions, I still had to phone him and he walked me through it without even a hint of condensation. We've got an incredible family and a very easy and convenient way to say in touch, so lets hear from the rest of the Barrys, Benningers, Bochslers, Corsinis, Fords, Gallaghers, Mathews,
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I remember living with your families too of course, but I meant when we were actually at Granddaddy's house, Aunts Colleen, Maureen and Nora were our primary care givers. Don't think for a minute that we could ever forget out months and years spent with you.
I had forgotten "Quick as a bunny." She would say it to me as an adult.
"If I don't see you through the week I'll see you through the window." Huh??
"Good O'"
"He has more dollars than sense"
AND
"I'll kill you if I have to"
No wait the last one was my dad's...