“Reflections of the Past” watercolor painting by kayti sweetland Rasmussen
Our seven year old great-granddaughter’s birthday occasioned the gathering our clan in Southern California this weekend. She will be attending the same neighborhood school where both her parents and their best friends, plus a number of other family members and friends went not so long ago.
It was especially strange to me as being in a military family, I seemingly moved with the seasons. When we met, at the age of 16, my future husband asked how many schools I had attended. I was in my junior year of high school at the time, and answered “twelve so far.” After graduation I counted three more.
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A group of our family stayed in my daughter’s lovely home for the weekend, and as we all called out our good nights, I was reminded of the old TV series “Little House on the Prairie”. Their closing scene each week was the sound of each family member saying “good night” as the lights went out in each room of the large house.
As I heard each of my family in turn say their “good nights”, I thought of how nice it is to be the progenitors of these delightful people.
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Painting is of grandson Matt at age 13 hearing the girlhood stories of his great-grandma Leita.
Pachofa-Unfinished 