Meghan's Musings

Picture me as a fourth-grade choir student seeing along with my fellow classmates to this 70s classic. Our choir teacher (her name escapes me) made all of us kids get dressed up in sock hop gear. My grandma McKay made me a yellow poodle skirt with a black poodle on the side, complete with sequins. I think I still have the scanner in my closet.  I had the privilege of wearing the poodle skirt one more time. It was in the 10th grade. I think I got extra credit for being the only one of my group members who was willing to dress up. After all that effort, I still got a C for the semester. I guess the presentation was a bigger deal than I thought.

Underneath that is the first season of one of my favorite television shows Full Hous e. Or as I like to call it when I was young “the Michelle show". Then we move to my collection of Sex and the City movies and DVDs. Next to those we have a red box that I believe contains a wooden version of the game tic-tac-toe. Underneath that box we have began Chinese   checkers. I tried to play once a few weeks back with an old friend but I don’t think either of us quite grasped the rules. I know I sure didn’t.             Underneath my TV is my combination DVD VCR player. I believe there is a DVD inside the DVD component but I can’t remember which. I haven’t watched a VH S tape in that thing in years. Next to that is various DVDs and movies that have not been put in their rightful place yet. Underneath my DVD VCR player is a another unit with drawers that open up. I think those drawers house makeup that I realize had. As well as, stat...

 My health   my family – – specifically the bond my mother and I share. If I ever become a famous author I make a solemn vow to dedicate to dedicate my first book to her. That was my plan from the beginning but now it seems especially important.  My musical tastes  The holidays – – mainly my mother's chocolate pie I think this year she is going to make a pumpkin cheesecake with a graham cracker crust. I am also happy to be invited to the Christmas party that my mother and father host each year. I am looking forward to sampling my mother's famous red sauce meatballs. They are always a big hit.  I am grateful that there are several books on my bookshelf that I have not read. Now I will have the opportunity to take a crack at several of them. I'm grateful that I was mainstreamed and that I never learned the tsunami of disability until later in life. The words cerebral palsy never meant a whole lot to me. That had a lot to do with the way I was raised. I alway...