One of my favorite breakfasts is sitting down to a frosted glass of chocolate milk and a couple of crispy slices of toast. It's not even that I really like chocolate milk, it's the memories the chocolate milk and toast bring back.
Chocolate milk and toast take me on a journey way back in time. To a time of self discovery. A time I was a teenager struggling to find my identity, learning how to love life, live life and how to thrive. It was a time I was closest to my oldest sister who is no longer with us. A simpler time.
It was a time of tanning in the back yard, using the garden hose to cool off and moisten our bodies. Of flipping over ever 15 minutes so we could "bake" evenly, front and back. Of laughter and nonsense. Of squishing our bellies together with our hands and cracking up over how it made our bellies look like a baby's butt. There's nothing quite like a sun kissed body!
It was summer days full of Knots Landing, Dallas (we loved to hate J.R.!) and the Eagles. Cruising around in a '64 pea green cougar, rocking out to Heart, The Eurythmics, and Kiss. Singing at the top of our lungs (usually off key) with the windows down, the sun streaming in and our hair blowing itself into long tangled knots. Later, during more mellow moments, digging on Lou Rawls.
Ahhh, the memories. I say my sister is no longer with us, but that's not entirely true. She lives on in my memories and the special moments that we shared. She's the sound of music playing on an old radio in the front seat of a '64 cougar...she's the soft laugh that ends in a hiccup and a sigh when I hear something funny. C'mon sister, let's go for a ride...
Feeling a little melancholy today...
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I Miss her too ....everyday ....and oh the way she could tell stories , and laugh ! Hope your day gets a little less melancholy today sis , I LOVE YOU !
ReplyDeleteWhat a great story- it brought me to tears.♥ It sounds like your sister was a wonderful person to hang out with and it sounds like you have a wonderful memory of her. I'm sure she's smiling down on you every time you drink a glass of chocolate milk :)
ReplyDeleteChocolate milk and toast....it always reminds me of her. Thanks for the memory!
ReplyDeleteVictoria, we all have our own special memories of her. We'd graduate from milk and toast in the mornings to a tall glass of tea in the afternoon...I miss the sunbathing!
ReplyDeleteYou're right Jeannie...she is always with us and always will be as I too recall my own cherished memories of her and how they helped to shape the person I am today. I remember how she would counsel me over my boyfriends, how she would advise me on the "bitch" strategy that lives with me today...how she could make me laugh until tears came to my eyes! She was amazing and still is.
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