Marilyn's Musings

What I'm going to write about happened during WW II when I was a kid. Recently I remembered two girls that went to my grammar school that I thought were beautiful and rather mysterious. Their names were Lillian and Lorena, though they went by Sugar and Pee Wee. To me they looked like the enchanted fairies right out of the lovely illustrated books I liked to read. Both had very light blonde hair and were thin and rather wistful. Lorena wore what looked like a part dress to school, one that was too small for her. (Back in the day, we wore the same dress to school for a week, and changed into play clothes when we came home. And yes, girls had to wear a dress.) One day, Lorena, who was in my class invited me to her house for lunch. I always took my lunch--the same thing every day--half a baloney sandwich and half a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a banana or other fruit, and 3 cookies. When I arrived at her home,  which perched on the hillside behind the school (an area I w...

On another blog I told about my childhood during World War II. Actually it was a great childhood. You can read about it at http://thestilettogang.com. But that made me start thinking about my husband and my first home we owned. Hubby was a career Seabee and didn't make much money. The home was in housing development called Rose Park, down payment $100 which we didn't have an easy time scraping up. Our neighbor on one side was an older retired couple (probably the age hubby and I are now) and the woman became a surrogate grandparent to my kids, and on the other side a young couple who had just got married. Across and down the street were two cops, one the corner a fireman. Other Seabess, cops, firemen were scattered here and there. When we moved there we had three kids, two young girls and a baby boy. The house itself was three bedrooms, two baths, living room and kitchen. Every house in the tract was the same, the only difference was which direction it was laid out and where th...