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We are relaxing today… The back and the headache are going strong today so we are staying home. We had to cancel out on a friends grand daughters 15th birthday but we just could not travel today. Paul got to thinking about birthdays…
Random Memories: When Paul was in elementary school, sixth grade, Mom and dad threw a birthday party. Paul went off to school and was anxious to come home Friday evening as the party was on a Saturday afternoon… it was a long time ago. Paul was into “trains”, American Flyer trains and had a small setup in the patio room. Paul noticed that his Mom and Dad were awfully busy but as a kid, they always are. They kept Paul busy the house and garage, never coming close to the patio room!
So, people begin to show up and as Paul walked to the patio and opened up the large 20’x20′ patio room there was an American Flyer train layout that Mom and Dad built… bigger than anything Paul ever saw! This layout was 30″ off the floor built on 4’x8′ planks of plywood.
Mom and built hills and mountains out of plaster of Paris with metallic screen wire and she had hand painted them. Dad cut our twoo hundred feet of blank asphalt roads for the cars. He even had telephone poles with string running between them! Two trains could run at once. The layout was HUGE! Paul was, and still is, amazed at what his most amazing parents had done.
Over the next many years the layout was rebuilt many times with Paul’s artistic and talented Mother making GREAT suggestions including how to make trees and bushes and other essentials needed on a railroad!
The train station in the background has a small record player in it and announced the trains coming and going! (Give to Paul by Ralph Lebowitz)
Ratchet forward many years…what do we do for a young ladies 15th birthday?
Did You Know: The fiesta de quince años (also fiesta de quinceañera, quince años and quince) is a celebration of a girl’s fifteenth birthday. It has its cultural roots in Latin America but is widely celebrated today throughout the Americas. The girl celebrating her 15th birthday is a quinceañera (Spanish pronunciation: [kinsea??e?a]; feminine form of “fifteen -year-old”). In Spanish, and in Latin American countries, the term quinceañera is reserved solely for the girl. In English, primarily in the United States, the term is used to refer to the celebrations associated with the birthday.
This birthday is celebrated differently from any other as it marks the transition from childhood to young womanhood. Historically, in the years prior to their fifteenth birthdays, girls were taught cooking, weaving, and about childbearing by the elder women in their communities in preparation for their future roles as wives
We binge watched “Royal Pains” from 3:00 PM to midnight!
