Thursday, 19 August, 2010 -- Day 242 (255)

I decorated my girls' school lockers yesterday afternoon for their volleyball season.  I felt like a cheerleader again.  We never decorated players' lockers, but we did spend considerable amounts of time making posters to hang in the hallways.  So as I created and cut and taped, I smiled, realizing how much happier I was doing this for my daughters than I ever was doing it for my peers.  Not sure if I ever mentioned this, but Mom was a cheerleader too until she got married at 16 and quit school after her junior year.  I just now realized that she would've finished her junior year of high school as a married woman since Mom and Dad were married 16 January 1947.  It all makes sense now.  She used to tell me how Dad didn't want her to be a cheerleader anymore after they got married.  She should've been still been a cheerleader for the basketball season.  How strange to have heard Mom mention this for most of my life and for it to just now sink in.  I must be the ultimate in dense.  I guess I've never really taken the time to put all the details of Mom's life in perspective.  If it wasn't for this blog, I'm not sure that I ever would.