Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Ruby Begonia
The innocence of a child's trusting gaze looking up into your eyes is priceless. The big hopeful doe eyes look up at you with somewhat of a plead to truly understand all there is to understand. Their imaginations are abuzz and the world of make believe is where they reside until they grow up to sit at a desk and doodle dreams on a big yellow note pad or stare out of a glass window wishing for that vacation time around the corner. What would life be like without fantasies or imagination?
My dad used to tell me stories while riding down the road. A kidder, a teaser, a picker was he. He still is. His stories involved characters like Sally Mae Slim Drawers and Ruby Begonia who were sisters! They were born and raised in a cabbage patch. Like the Cabbage Patch kids. Of course that made it even cooler because Cabbage Patch dolls were my whole world. I loved them like they were my children. I was a good little momma.
I have other small silly memories of my dad. Things that come to my mind like when he called my best friend Kate Altman and I Mutt and Jeff. I still don't exactly know who Mutt and Jeff are. Must be some old T.V. characters he was making a reference to. Purely funny to him as we look at him like what??? What are you talking about old man?!? I should look up Mutt and Jeff and see what I can find.....And even though my dad has seen Old Yeller 50 million times, he will still pop in the movie and watch it on a Saturday. Old Yeller is one of his happy places just like the name Ruby Begonia makes me smile.
My dad used to tell me stories while riding down the road. A kidder, a teaser, a picker was he. He still is. His stories involved characters like Sally Mae Slim Drawers and Ruby Begonia who were sisters! They were born and raised in a cabbage patch. Like the Cabbage Patch kids. Of course that made it even cooler because Cabbage Patch dolls were my whole world. I loved them like they were my children. I was a good little momma.
I have other small silly memories of my dad. Things that come to my mind like when he called my best friend Kate Altman and I Mutt and Jeff. I still don't exactly know who Mutt and Jeff are. Must be some old T.V. characters he was making a reference to. Purely funny to him as we look at him like what??? What are you talking about old man?!? I should look up Mutt and Jeff and see what I can find.....And even though my dad has seen Old Yeller 50 million times, he will still pop in the movie and watch it on a Saturday. Old Yeller is one of his happy places just like the name Ruby Begonia makes me smile.
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