*Sigh*
The new Cabelas and L.L. Bean catalogs came today in the mail. Jim loved getting those thick fall catalogs. He used to sit down with a red Sharpie marker and circle the things he wanted. Um, yeah - he did that as an adult. Sometimes he was bold enough to mail the whole L.L. Bean catalog to his mother with the circlings.
I miss him today.
posted by Kate at 3:07 PM
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Right-there-with-ya sister-in-law.
This week, we scheduled our try-to-make-it annual LL Bean pre-Christmas trip with Mom, Aunt Shirley, and Aunt Susie. It will be difficult for Mom to walk around with her catalogs without Jimmy's handwriting in them. I know she'll walk around looking at all the items wondering what Jim would've picked this year. That'll be sad.
I'll miss the Thanksgiving catalog battle. We all circled items in the catalogs for her...although Jimmy and I were known to cross each other's name off and write in our own if we wanted the same item. (For some reason Mom never liked buying us the same present.) I remember the one year the catalog came with those post-it tabs to mark pages. I used them all up - on purpose - with my items and then told him there were no more for him. Of course he took them off my pages and put them on his and told me there were plenty of tabs left for him! I'll miss looking at what Jim picked and then just writing Mark's name next to it too, knowing Mark's "outdoor apparel" taste was just like Jim's.
12:41 PM
The tool catalogs as well. I look at the Home Depot ads and the tool catalogs and .....
When Jim and I watched Norm Abrahams and his shop ... we would look at the tools and go "WOW" .. then we would remind ourselves that most of his stuff was probably donated by the manufacturer and his shop was bigger than our houses. He would then look at me, smile and say "you don't think Mom would like to move out, do you? Your bedroom would make a nice paint shop".
Papa
2:56 PM
Cherish those memories.....
Blogging is a great way to capture your memories as they come rushing back to you. Consider printing these posts or making a memory book so that when time and age steal the "search engine" to your memories.... you'll have something to pull them back to the surface. Funny how many things are tucked back in our minds..... but not so funny how many things will never be remembered without something to remind us.
Wishing all of you well!
I think about your family ALL THE TIME and feel as if I know all of you. Crazy, I know. But my heart goes out to you just the same.
11:10 PM
Cherish those memories.....
Blogging is a great way to capture your memories as they come rushing back to you. Consider printing these posts or making a memory book so that when time and age steal the "search engine" to your memories.... you'll have something to pull them back to the surface. Funny how many things are tucked back in our minds..... but not so funny how many things will never be remembered without something to remind us.
Wishing all of you well!
I think about your family ALL THE TIME and feel as if I know all of you. Crazy, I know. But my heart goes out to you just the same.
11:10 PM
Hi Kate! Just wanted to let you know that I'm thinking about you as the anniversary approaches. Something Paul believed in really helped me during these events... that days without labels are just as important as the ones with them. I tried not to get too worked up about the anniversaries, birthdays, etc. and just let the day happen.
I hope you are doing well, that the kids are thriving, and that you are enjoying life.... because you deserve that happiness!
8:26 PM
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