Remembering Yesterday
Viewing comments for Chapter 20 "Shady Lane Drive"A widow's journey into her relationship with her
16 total reviews
Comment from alexisleech
I find a lot of your husband's characteristics to be the same as my late husband. Eight years older than me, he took on a more responsible role than most and, like your husband, rarely drank alcohol. I refused to have a chip pan without a thermostatic control after my first husband nearly burnt the house down on two occasions when I was away on business, and he fell into a drunken stupor after turning the chip pan on! I'm sure it was terrifying when yours caught fire, and can imagine how painful it must have been.
Saving my sixes till the end of the week, but this chapter certainly deserved one.
Alexis xxx
reply by the author on 29-Dec-2020
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I find a lot of your husband's characteristics to be the same as my late husband. Eight years older than me, he took on a more responsible role than most and, like your husband, rarely drank alcohol. I refused to have a chip pan without a thermostatic control after my first husband nearly burnt the house down on two occasions when I was away on business, and he fell into a drunken stupor after turning the chip pan on! I'm sure it was terrifying when yours caught fire, and can imagine how painful it must have been.
Saving my sixes till the end of the week, but this chapter certainly deserved one.
Alexis xxx
Comment Written 29-Dec-2020
reply by the author on 29-Dec-2020
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Thanks again for a delightful review. I appreciate you sharing your experiences with me. I'm thankful I did have an acholic for a husband. I have friends who did and their experiences are something that would be hard to live with.
Beth
Comment from Rosemary Everson1
Wow! Drinking the day away while trying to solve problems. My mom didn't drink either but I do remember her one time drinking beer. My dad drank so it was not pleasant some days.
reply by the author on 29-Jun-2020
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Wow! Drinking the day away while trying to solve problems. My mom didn't drink either but I do remember her one time drinking beer. My dad drank so it was not pleasant some days.
Comment Written 29-Jun-2020
reply by the author on 29-Jun-2020
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My husband never drank again after that one time. I think he might have had a few beers when he was in service before we met.
Comment from Spitfire
You must have kept a diary to remember all these details.
I had a couple cooking disasters too.
I wondered when the age difference might affect you.
Sex was more fun now that we didn't have to worry about birth control. LOL
reply by the author on 22-Mar-2020
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You must have kept a diary to remember all these details.
I had a couple cooking disasters too.
I wondered when the age difference might affect you.
Sex was more fun now that we didn't have to worry about birth control. LOL
Comment Written 22-Mar-2020
reply by the author on 22-Mar-2020
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Some how those things come back pretty clearly when I think about them. My kids says the fact I've already told them some of these things help me to remember. Of course, I sometimes have trouble remembering what I did a week ago.
Beth
Comment from Aaqib Naeem
So, you move to Shady Lane where everyone in the vicinity either has kids or is pregnant or both!! Haha I somehow find that to be funny! :-) But a good place to raise a child :-)
The part about your husband drinking that one day just as you were praising him behind his back for not doing it...well these kinds of ironies also make life interesting and make you bite your tongue dont they!?
reply by the author on 19-Mar-2020
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So, you move to Shady Lane where everyone in the vicinity either has kids or is pregnant or both!! Haha I somehow find that to be funny! :-) But a good place to raise a child :-)
The part about your husband drinking that one day just as you were praising him behind his back for not doing it...well these kinds of ironies also make life interesting and make you bite your tongue dont they!?
Comment Written 19-Mar-2020
reply by the author on 19-Mar-2020
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Thank you, Aaqib, I do appreciate the review and comments. It was family neighborhood. Yes, I did have to bite my tongue. It was embarrassing. But my friend Joy would end up marring an alcoholic so I really had nothing to ashamed off with her.
Comment from forestport12
Isn't it strange the things we think of? When I first started reading, I thought, oh goodness. I was born in 1958. 1959 is interesting time to me, and as you develop the story it brings back memories of my parents and life back then. Struggles are not any different than most young people today. Struggling to be trusted for a job, paying the rent, etc... Love, love how it ended with your husband and how he deep down, he was still the good man you married, and that he needed to sleep it off and get a fresh start. Good work Beth.
reply by the author on 18-Mar-2020
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Isn't it strange the things we think of? When I first started reading, I thought, oh goodness. I was born in 1958. 1959 is interesting time to me, and as you develop the story it brings back memories of my parents and life back then. Struggles are not any different than most young people today. Struggling to be trusted for a job, paying the rent, etc... Love, love how it ended with your husband and how he deep down, he was still the good man you married, and that he needed to sleep it off and get a fresh start. Good work Beth.
Comment Written 18-Mar-2020
reply by the author on 18-Mar-2020
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My children with a just a little younger that you are seem to be enjoying finding out how it was with us. They struggled too but in slightly different ways. I really appreciate you reviewing my story. Thank you.
Beth
Comment from royowen
I think your hubby was still a very good boy, with all that abstinence during your marriage, I think he was pretty upright in character. I'm enjoying this biography a lot dear Beth, you and your hubby must have been pretty innocent in those days, well done, blessings, Roy
reply by the author on 18-Mar-2020
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I think your hubby was still a very good boy, with all that abstinence during your marriage, I think he was pretty upright in character. I'm enjoying this biography a lot dear Beth, you and your hubby must have been pretty innocent in those days, well done, blessings, Roy
Comment Written 17-Mar-2020
reply by the author on 18-Mar-2020
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Thank you Roy. Yes my husband was a very person of very good character. He had higher standard that I did which is one reason I'm glad I married him because I needed someone to help me stay in line. As a young person, you could say I was pretty naive. Thank you for the review.
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Well done Beth
Comment from Sasha
Sorry, but my eyes are so bad it is almost impossible to review so please accept my apology for passing on this one. Maybe one day if they find a cure, I'll be back in the running.
reply by the author on 17-Mar-2020
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Sorry, but my eyes are so bad it is almost impossible to review so please accept my apology for passing on this one. Maybe one day if they find a cure, I'll be back in the running.
Comment Written 17-Mar-2020
reply by the author on 17-Mar-2020
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Of Course, I appreciate you giving it stars anyway. I'm so sorry about your eyes.
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Thank you.
Comment from barbara.wilkey
Once again, I am happy you're sharing this with us. I am still surprised about the poll tax and testing to register to vote. I have asked around. My 88 year old mom, didn't have to do it. BUY....she was from the Midwest. I had read about it in books but never met anybody.
Since I had to make monthly visits to the gynecologist and I still didn't drive, Julia volunteered to be my driver.(I am surprised you had a gynecologist. My mom and even with my older children, I only had a family doctor. It wasn't until my youngest, that I had an OB/GYN.)
reply by the author on 17-Mar-2020
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Once again, I am happy you're sharing this with us. I am still surprised about the poll tax and testing to register to vote. I have asked around. My 88 year old mom, didn't have to do it. BUY....she was from the Midwest. I had read about it in books but never met anybody.
Since I had to make monthly visits to the gynecologist and I still didn't drive, Julia volunteered to be my driver.(I am surprised you had a gynecologist. My mom and even with my older children, I only had a family doctor. It wasn't until my youngest, that I had an OB/GYN.)
Comment Written 17-Mar-2020
reply by the author on 17-Mar-2020
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Thanik you for the review and the comments. The poll tax may have been just the Southern states. Jackson was the biggest place in Mississippi so they had specialists. My own grandchildren born in the last 10 years came as home births with a midwife. I was born at home but I didn't have a doctor and nurse in attendance.
Comment from Marjon van Bruggen
Great remembrances again, Beth! I so enjoy reading about your life and the letter-to-your-husband style you use to write about it all. The episodes of the bit strange Sunday school habits (is it still that way? Make separations between men and women and different age-groups?) and the last: your one-time-only drunk husband, I liked the best.
Just once you had a little slip:...when the the baby started to move... you had one "the" too many. But that is peanuts. Super chapter!
reply by the author on 17-Mar-2020
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Great remembrances again, Beth! I so enjoy reading about your life and the letter-to-your-husband style you use to write about it all. The episodes of the bit strange Sunday school habits (is it still that way? Make separations between men and women and different age-groups?) and the last: your one-time-only drunk husband, I liked the best.
Just once you had a little slip:...when the the baby started to move... you had one "the" too many. But that is peanuts. Super chapter!
Comment Written 17-Mar-2020
reply by the author on 17-Mar-2020
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Thank you so much for the review and comments. I think many churches still do. Women can only women groups and the men teach in the men's group. I'm not sure about the age separation. I'm not Baptist any more. Thanks for catching my extra "the".
Beth
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ok, welcome.
Comment from nancy_e_davis
Another well written chapter about you early married life . Actually it is a letter to your deceased husband. It was very interesting, Beth. Well done. Nancy:)
reply by the author on 17-Mar-2020
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Another well written chapter about you early married life . Actually it is a letter to your deceased husband. It was very interesting, Beth. Well done. Nancy:)
Comment Written 17-Mar-2020
reply by the author on 17-Mar-2020
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Thank you Nancy, I'm so glad my you continue to read. My grandmother was a Davis. Does you name or husband's come from Wales?
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Probably. I'm not sure. I'm English, Irish Swiss. LOL. My maternal Grandmother said we are related to the Prince of Whales. She did a genealogy search. Nancy:)
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So am I plus a dab of Norwegian and little German. I'm into genealogy too. It's amazing how much royal blood you can find in your DNA.
