Record players

One of the very first electronic devices I learned to use was the record player in our old stereo. It was a combination stereo; it played cassette tapes and the radio and good old vinyl records. (The top popped up and you’d put the record there.) Of course, I only knew how to play one record: Johnny Mathis.

Why that one? Because it was the only one I’d ever seen played. Mom and Dad both liked his singing, so they’d pull out the record, put it in the record player, and dance in the living room.

Awwww.

Measuring Mom's belly for FHE

When Mom was pregnant with Shawn, Mom and Dad wanted to make sure that Nick and I felt some  excitement for a new child coming to the family.  Every week, we’d have Family Home Evening on Monday nights. Dad would get out the measuring tape and measure around Mom’s waist. We’d record the measurement on a piece of paper, so that each week we could see how the baby was growing.

Mom hated it, but I thought it was really cool.