Peach ice cream with Grandmommy on a hot summer’s day
Falling asleep on a 15 minute car drive
Himalayan cats
Artificial Christmas trees so we don’t get sick
Oatmeal cream pies and limeade
Soccer games and cross country meets
Vacations to the Caribbean
Peaks of Otter and Smith Mountain Lake
Making silly faces and words that don’t make sense
Southern accents and fresh sweet tea
Being stuck in the grocery store for hours
Remembering names
Asthma attacks and ankle sprains
High school mean girls
The greenbrier river and canvas tents
Songs about everything
Always smiling through thick and thin
Rainbows signifying it’ll be okay
Never went to prom
Pushing a woman in a wheel chair to vote
Bruises and skinned knees
Asking for a baby sister for Christmas
Blue team forever and purple JCs
Gov school nerds and science festivals
Backstreet Boys Millennium
A brother I always copied who one day got sick
Loud TVs and stock market lingo
A successful CPA mother who had bad luck with politics
Holidays with cousins where silliness prevails
Visits to New York
Babysitting and Clam Digger’s Seafood
Canoeing and eight year olds
Surrounded by love whether I realized it or not