Naomi just left to go to the Evergreen State Fair with her friend Leslie and her family. She decided her big black purse was too big so she took this one that belonged to my mom.
I'm remembering, I think I had one very similar. Maybe my mom bought one for her and me at the same time. Mine wasn't so blue? Maybe I had it in college? That would put it in the early 1970s. Naomi mentioned that she had brought the purse to my mother's memorial using it as a knitting bag for the baby bootees and my sister recognized it.
Astonishing that my two younger daughters picked up some habits from their grandmother. Girl Scouts, knitting. Skips a generation.
Naomi's finished up at Y day camp and will be doing a 'pre-autumn' class involving shadowing a public school teacher for the next two weeks. Then off to her new school, Central Washington University. She just transferred there from Washington State University. Central is known for its teacher training. I went with her to the transfer student orientation and I was very impressed with the kids I saw. Almost all are transferring from community colleges and they all seemed to know why they were there and what they wanted to do. "I want to be a Spanish teacher" and "I want to be a school psychologist". Down to earth. No out of state students. No sorority girls. Plus Central has a branch campus at Edmonds Community College right near here.
Today, like very soon, I'll be off the University of Washington football game for my only paid gig...ushering at the football games. I will have a sandwixh and a sweater with me but other than that, you really have to operate out of your pockets. It's long and you have to stand a bunch. But it keeps by employment status with the U. Today's game against Eastern Washington, first game in a long while against a team in a 'lower' classification.
Dennis left early for the softball games with Teddy in tow.
No comments:
Post a Comment