Show Just Remember Good Times By FLORENCE BITTNER Summer is vacation and vacation time is family With a Although vengeance may not be the aim when the family starts it often reaches that point at some time during the ensuing WE HAVE had some wonderful times in our family and there is one thing about the human especially human mother's We learn to program out the unpleasant and retain only the blissful looking back at the we remember only the time little Jonathan observed after a hot ride across a as we entered a isn't it nice to take a refreshing dip in a FORGOTTEN are battles in the back seat during the hot ride across the desert when on a washboard road Warren decided to work a jigsaw Jonathan got the and the dog got There is just no way you can mix a jigsaw a bumpy a fidgety little boy and a sick dog and still keep the serenity we remember THE FARTHER into the part the vacation the more blissful are the It has to get bad before it is My boys remember their visit to Disneyland as a I remember we forgot no sane person drives from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in July without air conditioning during the heat of the We melted two one grand one mother and three Daddy didn't he only MY CHILDREN remember our visit to Tijuana their glimpse of a foreign I remember it as the time I nearly lost insists to this day he wasn't he knew exactly where he but I My memory of my adorable little son at the mercy of all potential kidnappers has just about cured me of Tijuana for We remember our visits to Lake Powell as moments in Serene towering jubilant sons plunging into warm speeding for miles in the gently rocking WE FORGET the the endless hours of the drive to get the terrible road from Green River to Crescent the squabbles in the motel at night when two brothers are forced to share one one blanket and two pillows after a lifetime of having all that to themselves every night at We remember when Carol is able to join how the of them sing how much fun they have telling goofy how considerate they are of each how much they enjoy each WE FORGET how crowded the back seat how we stumble over their how everyone wants the bathroom at the same imperative how much it costs to enjoy the pleasure of their how bottomless their there is something about a family removed from its natural environment which makes for In case memory takes a momentary lapse when we get there are all those little treasures to remind THERE is a suitcase full Of interesting rocks accumulated from all kinds of The boys insist if we just knew about semi-precious stones there are surely some valuable rocks In and since we don't know which are we had better hang onto all of them just in Which is alright because I doubt anyone could lift that suitcase out of the There's that box of seashells collected on beaches of various I know of no earthly use for seashells except to be collected and then dusted You can make table decorations out of them but we already have table decorations from every vacation we ever We have more table decorations than we have WE HAVE driftwood and table scarves and wall painted dishes and wooden In a few more trips we won't be able to sit down at home without smashing a Family vacations make summer our favorite We can hardly wait till the next |