ok, i know this is blowing someone's mind...lol
The quote is from her journal; the book is one she read and loved. My mom was good, really good and pure, but she had a heart for "bad" girls. Especially the rejected and neglected.
She told me when i was a young lady, that it was the good girls who ended up in trouble (code back then for you got pregnant out of marriage) She said this was because good girls weren't planning on being bad. Bad girls planned for it, accordingly.
My father was quite the practical joker who loved teasing my sweet mother by telling stories that while they had truth in them- left out crucial details.
Example #1. On Sweetest Day 1941 while at my Dad's house, his Dad offered my Mom some homemade wine. She had a few sips and not being a drinker at all, felt sick. His sisters had her lay down in their bed. While she was resting, my father came in and proposed marriage to her. She accepted. He'd tell me your mother was drunk and in bed when i proposed. She'd be horrified, and quickly fill in the missing details.... he would giggle.
Example #2. He'd tell me, that they married on July 12th and their son was born on July 13th. True....however he failed to say they married in 1942, and their son was born in July of 1943. Again, my Mom would be horrified, firmly correct the record and Dad would giggle.
I would be horrified too, and scold my Dad, and he would laugh. Hmmm wonder what kind of jokes he's be pulliing on us now.
ok, i know this is blowing someone's mind...lol
The quote is from her journal; the book is one she read and loved. My mom was good, really good and pure, but she had a heart for "bad" girls. Especially the rejected and neglected.
She told me when i was a young lady, that it was the good girls who ended up in trouble (code back then for you got pregnant out of marriage) She said this was because good girls weren't planning on being bad. Bad girls planned for it, accordingly.
My father was quite the practical joker who loved teasing my sweet mother by telling stories that while they had truth in them- left out crucial details.
Example #1. On Sweetest Day 1941 while at my Dad's house, his Dad offered my Mom some homemade wine. She had a few sips and not being a drinker at all, felt sick. His sisters had her lay down in their bed. While she was resting, my father came in and proposed marriage to her. She accepted. He'd tell me your mother was drunk and in bed when i proposed. She'd be horrified, and quickly fill in the missing details.... he would giggle.
Example #2. He'd tell me, that they married on July 12th and their son was born on July 13th. True....however he failed to say they married in 1942, and their son was born in July of 1943. Again, my Mom would be horrified, firmly correct the record and Dad would giggle.
I would be horrified too, and scold my Dad, and he would laugh. Hmmm wonder what kind of jokes he's be pulliing on us now.
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