When You Pack...You Find Some Forgotten Gems

Here are a few things I was excited about when they popped up this week as we packed to move home...

<----This cassette tape. We realized we don't own a tape player anymore, so I had to go listen to it in the car. Classic.

This video was for auditory purposes only--for those wishing to hear the rap. I tried to make it somewhat visually entertaining but it is quite lame. So consider yourself warned.

Did I forget to mention one side of the tape is the rap and the other side is instrumental (but does include the chorus background singers) so you can perform the rap yourself?

I went through all the photos we own and organized them. It was funny going through all of Rhett's photos, some of which I'd never seen. I was impressed with this one. He is only a sophomore (Rhett is muscles in red).

I was packing up and organizing all the baby/ nursery stuff and found this little dress. Last Spring I made dress for myself, and out of the scraps made this baby dress. Obviously I can't use it any time soon because we had a boy, but I tried it on R.J. to see how it fit, or if it fit at all because I just hacked it out without a pattern. To me, he looks like a boy in a dress, but maybe that is because I see him every day and to anyone else he could be a little baby girl. Rhett told me if there's any gender confusion in his future I'll be solely to blame.

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Also, I should have taken a picture (before I packed it away) of my 7th grade Home Ec project. We made wind socks or I don't know what they're called really. A tube of fabric with strips hanging off the bottom. In 7th grade my best friends were Lindsay W. and Marianne K. we called ourselves the "Rebels" to aggravate Miss Morrow, a red head teacher that taught this weird required class that was about self esteem or something?? If anyone the went to Mt. Ridge Jr. High remembers the name of that class remind me. But for sewing, we further wanted to aggravate our teacher--Mrs. Jensen. To do this, for our wind socks we chose the ugliest combination we could. Our strips were black, forest green, and lime green. I have this vivid memory of "Miss Jen" rolling her eyes back and her bouffant shaking in disgust as we laid out our strips to sew. I think she made a comment about "awful color selection" and our demands she provide brown in the future. Why didn't I take the picture of that thing??? Maybe I'll stumble across it when we unpack next week.

Jr. High update: TLC was the home ec course, each term was a different area. The class Miss Morrow taught was Quest...thank you Jessica and Marianne for informing us all. Lynette and I always quote "Miss Jen" on using the "factory fold" when cutting out fabric. I wonder if she's still teaching...

Now back to packing...