Well many things happened at Edgewater, as we lived there 5 years. I was in 5th grade at that house...starting there. Now they didn't have school buses for us to get to school...so we took town transit type bus as I recall, certainly not them yellow school buses.
Our seating arrangement at the kitchen table was boys in order down the right hand side of daddy. Now for the girls, I sat on daddy's left hand, I think mainly because I both wanted to be there but also my two sisters were more afraid of him. I want to say Con sat then next to me, just remembering from her sitting there asking for her first date, she was beside me.
Back to 5th grade though, I had a German/American teacher a man. He used to say my last name was pronounced will use phonetics as sound "Ekman" Not Ehrman. He also accused me of being a day dreamer. Now I have no clue on that one...just would say it to me. Now you just tend to remember strange things stated especially to a full classroom about you. So the man was telling me I guess that I was German not Swiss. Well the Swiss did speak German, lots did.
We also had a park Lakeside Park close to our house, we were put in summer programs there, also did Ice skating there in the winter. So Cheri I think and I did do tennis, don't remember if Con tried that one. Also took classes for knitting, and different other projects...embroidery things like that.
I think it was pretty young at this house that my sister Cheri caught on fire..by the stove. I also was in the kitchen when she yelled... I ran over and started beating with my hands on her chest to put the fire out. She would tease me after that and say that was why she was not large chested hahaha.
Of course you remember the strange things, us girls usually did KP duty cleaning the kitchen. Well mom was also training the boys...and what I remember as we had a half bath right there at kitchen.. is Carey would always have to go to the bathroom and sit there how ever long it took so he didn't have to do KP. He would get big indents ring around his bottom...don't remember how we found that out but another joke about it with us girls.
Just some funny things you remember.
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