this goes out to the glinkas

hey there fam!!! i had the most fun and interesting dream last night - you were all in it!!! it was a family picnic that started out in denise and ricky's OLD house... (i'm surprised i can even remember that house, i was so little when you moved). the best was when we had a pinata at the house, and i got the coolest beaded wallet - ah memories...

anyway so it started out at the old house and little ricky was still really little, then (as dreams goes) it randomly was MY old house. i know i know - it's just a house - but i get sentimental, so i was happy to be there... :) everyone was sitting around the kitchen table. denise, funnily enough was cracking jokes to stephanie and steph and i were CRACKING UP!!! whatever D said apparently was a tad racy and steph, blushed!!! which made me laugh even more, because i was so surprised ANYBODY could make stephanie blush!!!

just then i looked over and saw sarah was wearing my clothes and they looked small on her (which i thought was WRONG). so i got super pissed and was like "did you put that shirt in the washer?" and she's like "yea, why" of course i had specifically told her she could wear it if she hung it dry... well in true sarah form she waited until the last minute to clean it and then had to dry it in the dryer. needless to say if the shirt was small on sarah it wasn't gonna ever fit me again. i let her have it - that was the most normal part of my entire dream - me and sarah arguing about clothes... haha

uncle harry was there and looked soooo good. it was really nice to see him. he was in the cooking kitchen area smoking a cigarette, which was sooo odd. what more, no one cared that he was smoking or that he was doing it in the house. i don't know where i got an image of him smoking, because as far as i know he never smoked when i was alive... but i digress.

it was funny because no one's ages coincided. stephanie was like 19, unmarried and sans kids - martha was about 14, little ricky was a baby, but mason was TEN - go figure... i can't say with certainty how old i was, but i feel like it fluctuated between 10 and 17...

flash to me and jason outside playing on the front lawn or porch. we saw all the neighbors cars in the street were really banged up, and if course we knew the culprit was our new neighbor, who had a bad rap as a terrible driver. immediately i ran inside to tell my dad to pull his beloved suburban into the driveway so it didn't get hit. instead of pulling it in from where it was, we took the scenic route.... which seemed a lot like vermont.

we got back and we were in ricky's old house again sitting at the table and mason (at 10 years old) sat down on a picnic bench and whatever he was doing, scip sends him outside, because obviously the picnic bench was inside the kitchen along with the other table. so he ran outside and i thought "boy did he get big fast..." little did i know!

it was a really short dream, but it was the last one i woke up with - so it was fresh in my mind. even though only some people spoke in the dream, i felt everyone's presence there and i miss you so much, but i was really glad to see you!!! hugs and kisses to all :)

here's some pictures from my graduation party 2 years back... you probably never saw these i realize, so why not throw in some good ole family pix??? and some from jess and vinnie's wedding too :) you see on my laptop i don't have as many recent pictures... so you'll have to do without the past 3 family picnics...