When I was a little girl, my parents did have much. There was four children in our family and it took a lot to keep us clothed and food on the table. We weren't ever really able to go out to eat, to the movies and those kinds of things, so my parents always improvised at home and made Friday nights special for us. When there was just three of us at home ( Karen is much younger than us) we would have to invent things to play. Most days, as long as the sun was shining and it was " a pretty day" we would spend outside pretending to be everything we could think of. But on many occasions you could find us in the house playing dress up. We loved to play GREASE. My oldest sister Susanne was always the "costume designer" and Phillip and I her guinea pigs. She would dress me up like Sandy and grease Phillip's hair back so he could be Danny. We would take the posts off of our canopy bed and use them as microphones. We would sing and dance the whole movie. I guess you could say we were the "Great Pretenders".
The most fun we ever had was on the Friday nights my dad would come home from work, change his clothes and call us to his bedroom for our weekly dance party. You see my dad collected and still collects 45s. He would play one right after another and we would dance and sing the night away. My dad would take turns dancing with his girls whirling and twirling us. We didn't know life could be any better than that.
For Christmas this year, my parents bought me an Ipod Nano. It has been the best gift ever. I have enjoyed it so much, but no one loves it more than my dad. He keeps calling it "OUR" ipod. Last night we went to spend the evening with my parents and I took "our" ipod with me, knowing he was going to ask for it. We started going through his CDs to download more songs and man was that like those Friday nights way back when. We sang, danced and laughed. I could just picture myself as that little girl so many years ago. We had a BLAST!!
Thanks dad for all those times you spent with us on Friday nights! I know that is where I gained my love for music! I will never forget our "Dance parties" or how you always made me feel special when it was my turn to be "dipped"! I love you more than you will ever know! I had a great time last night!
