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We had a wonderful Veterans' Day ceremony/remembrance at school yesterday. I took some pictures, but I don't how they turned out. Having to share the computer with two students (one college and one high school) and sometimes a teacher, my time on here is limited. I hope to share a little of that remembrance when I can have enough time on here to put it together.
One of our Parkview fathers is in Iraq. It's not his first trip. We follow his "adventure" through his daughter and his wife. They hope to be reunited here on American soil next week. It's touching to hear them talk and to see their positive outlook and eagerness to all "live together again" one day. That's what his wife told us yesterday. There were tears during the ceremony. A large picture of him was placed in the front of the multi-purpose room
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I have done so well in resisting goodies and over-eating this week. I have exercised and refrained from eating past 7 pm. I just broke down and had a super small package of M & M mini's. That just left me wanting more. Maybe I'll have a little more chocolate (before 7 pm, of course) and call it dinner. Our girls are all gone, I don't know when Mark will be home, and I'm all alone. :( What better reason is there to eat chocolate?
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Mark noticed in the paper a few weeks ago that Frankie Avalon would be coming to our area. He asked me to guess where; so being completely silly I said, “Parma Senior High.” That is the high school that is right next door to my building and is the school from which Mark graduated. I couldn’t believe that my silly guess was right. Who would think that Frankie Avalon would come to Parma Senior High? Mark had talked about going, but never mentioned it again. I had been at the gym from 4:30 to 5:30, and I was eating after getting home from the workout when I mentioned it to him. He had forgotten all about it. Mind you it was after 6. The show started at 7:30. In Mark's last-minute fashion, he got on the phone and got us tickets. Off we went.
Traffic was awful. There were large charter busses with a lot of elderly people. Mark remarked that I might have been the youngest one in attendance; but after looking around, we saw that was not the case. There was valet parking in the front, which we did not know till it was too late. Rather than risk missing the first part of the show, we forked over the $3 and let them park the car.
Frankie talked about his wife and family. They have four boys and four girls. Eight kids, and everyone said, "Wow!" He said, “That’s all with ONE wife, and that is a BIG WOW”! Their oldest is 45 (said that was amazing - he's older than he is :) ), and the youngest is 35. Yes, eight kids in ten years. That drew another WOW! He said his wife was a busy lady with all those kids.
He performed a lot of his own songs, of course, and looked very good for 68 – at least from a distance. Still very active. He introduced his son, Frankie, Jr., who is his drummer. Then he introduced his guitarist as Edan and stated he was not his son. Later he fully introduced him as Edan Everly, the son of Don Everly of the Everly Brothers. They sang three of their songs together. He also sang songs of three friends who helped him as a young man but who are no longer living. Rick Nelson (apparently his family took him in), Elvis Presley, and Bobby Darren. He went strong for about an hour-and-a-half.
Mark said he didn’t think he had been in that auditorium since he was a senior. It was a very nice evening out for us. Sometimes last-minute plans pay off.
Hope you all have some fun this weekend!!
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