Valerie Peterson Day, Tribe of Maurice

Valerie Peterson Day, Tribe of Maurice, Memories, from 2000

The doxology at every family gathering…getting homesick at Wood Lake camp…riced potatoes at Sandberg’s…Uncle Don’s tin and jawbreakers…swimming at “the cabin…”…Auntie Vone’s Sunday School story about the red hen who hid her chicks under her wing…Larry’s first Christmas Eve with the family, 40 below zero at Uncle Delroy’s…Uncle Irvin getting us ice cream from the creamery…Uncle Delroy leading the “opening exercises” at Wood River Church…waiting until the dishes were done to open gifts on Christmas Eve…having to confess when I stole a keychain from Judie’s room…Auntie Teela’s prayers and homemade rolls (they often went together)…riding to CYF in Paul’s VW…pigs, peas from the pond, “kick-the-can” and singing in the neighborhood when we visited Aunt Annie…finding kittens in the Sandberg’s barn…Auntie Vone’s egg coffee…the family singing “Great is Thy Faithfulness” at Christmas Eve in Webster church.