more thoughts of PJs

shared by Marlo R. Beall, her sister

In a previous entry, I told about a set of Cindy's pajamas that we keep hanging in our closet. It's a light purplish-blue, spaghetti strap tank top, and some plaid, blue and white, pajama pants.

Cyn Cyn is 13 now, and resembles her Tita Cyn in many ways. Just tonight, I looked at her in her PJs - a plain white, spaghetti strap tank top, and pinkish-salmonish pajama pants with some white outlined design pattern - and thought, "Huh... whad'ya know... she sure looks a lot like Cindy in those PJs."

thoughts of everyone loves doughnuts

shared by VJ Rabuy and Marlo Beall, her sisters

Cindy and VJ liked doughnuts. Cindy's doughnut was the old fashioned glaze. VJ's doughnut was the chocolate raised. VJ remembers that they had a phase when the two of them were into French Curlers; it was most likely because they saw it in the movie Wayne’s World.

When Cindy was Senior Class President, her class would sell doughnuts at school, during the first break everyday; and they made a lot of money. When any of us think of the best doughnut shops in Fremont, we always think of Lloyd’s Donuts, where Cindy’s class bought their doughnuts. Yum!

Cyn Cyn and Ava are also doughnut fans. Cyn Cyn prefers the old fashioned glaze, while Ava mixes it up, but always keeps it fun. She often opts for the chocolate raised bars, chocolate raised, or sprinkles. It's fun to see the shared doughnut love among aunts and nieces.

Ava was so inspired by her doughnut affection that she chose a Jansport backpack with a doughnut designed pattern for her back to school backpack this year. She wore it for the first day of school today, and I know almost everyone who sees it begins to crave a doughnut! Yum! Yum!! Yum!!!

thoughts of repair camp

shared by VJ Rabuy, her sister

Cindy and I each got a JanSport backpack many moons ago, one September, as we prepared to go back-to-school. Mine was purple with leather on the bottom, and hers was black with leather on the bottom.

Our mom bought our backpacks from Costco; and for some reason, I remember them being packaged in a box with one corner cut out, so the color could be seen.

Our backpacks served us well through our school-aged years; and whenever either of our zippers would get worn out, we would send our backpack to the JanSport Warranty Department. That was one of the best things about JanSport products, the lifetime warranty.

When we would receive our freshly repaired backpacks in the mail, there would be a slip of paper attached telling the story of how much fun our pack had at “repair camp”. It would describe the activities our backpack participated in and any drills it practiced. We always got a kick out of that little note that came with our “good as new” backpack.