Red Bank Living

We moved into a house @ 3609  Lamar Ave when I was 4. This house  we rented.
 When I was 6, mama got pregnant . May 21st 1966 when I was 7, my brother Bruce was born.
When I was 9, we moved 2 houses up, but, this time, we were buying :}This house was @ 3615 Lamar Ave.
.My mama walked me to school all through elementary school. :} We walked to the big town of Red Bank on the weekends when I was small. Then there were a lot of pharmacies with a counter where you could sit and have a soda, a burger, a sundae etc.

There, I lived all my teenage years and grew up.
Red Bank was a good school. I didn't ever like school though, I liked to go so I could see my friends!
I spent summers @ the Red Bank pool, riding my 10 speed and  hanging out with my friends.
I played softball for the Red Bank Gals from age 9 til age 15. I was hind catcher.
Mama was @ every game and walked with me to my practices on Saturday. And was @ every game we played. My daddy worked 3rd, so he didn't come to many practices or games.

Growing up as me :}

Sometimes do you sit and try to think , what age was my first memory? Was I 2? I believe I was actually.
 I remember a house we lived in that an older lady named Mrs. Gault rented out part of of her house.
I remember  kind of what the inside of some of the house looked like, and there was a drop off from the back porch.
 I had a teddy bear named Mamie. Of anything and everything I have ever lost, when I lost this bear in a storage I had and couldn't pay on, it hurt me more than you could imagine! :{
I was inside of a little store in North Chattanooga looking over 3 feet above me to see the man behind the counter,with 3 pennies giving them to him @ age 3 (from what my mama told me). Apparently I had walked out of the house and down the block to the corner store!
 We lived on Coeval St and Albany St, both in N. Chatt.  When we lived on Albany we had a live Nativity at church and they used one of my baby dolls. :}. I remember that my uncle Julius lived with us for a while and he always stomped and made loud noises when it stormed, because, it scared me and I always ran and jumped in his lap. He thought it was funny! He was playing and was always nice to me.
  We had a cake for my daddy  once and we hid in the kitchen and mama came out and lit his cake for him. Aw sweet <3
 We lived in North Chattanooga, in a 2 story little house on Barton Ave. We had 2 dogs and a cat. I remember giving the cat a bath, he took off running and never came back. Never to be seen again! There was a house across from us and the people who lived there had a housekeeper. I decided to just take off and go to visit my friend who lived there. I was talking to the house keeper and turned around and there mama was! Uh oh! Needless to say, I got my butt busted. And had to stay in the rest of the day. I knew not to walk across the street. 
I had my own bedroom, I think there was a curtain over my closet door.I use to dream that little green men came out of my closet.
 I could look out of my window and down to the driveway and wave bye to daddy when he was leaving for work.
If I was upstairs and he came home I always knew, because, our cocker spaniels would run down the stairs to meet him.
And then when I was 4, we moved to Red Bank on Lamar Ave...

Life as I know it: Life as I know it

Life as I know it: Life as I know it: "I was born in North Chattanooga, February 5th 1959 I believe we lived in North Chattanooga until I was 4, then we moved to Red Bank. I grew ..."

Life as I know it

I was born in North Chattanooga, February 5th 1959
I believe we lived in North Chattanooga until I was 4, then we moved to Red Bank.
I grew up on Lamar Ave, went to Red Bank all through school.
The 1st job I had was @ Shoney's in Red Bank. For 2 years I stayed at that job. I was a server and sometimes a hostess.
After Shoney's, I worked @ a grocery store called Shop Rite as a cashier.
The next job I had was @ a gas station called Kayo in Red Bank.
This is where I met Darryl, who I married and had my son Erik by. We stayed together a little over 3 years.
Later, I married again. Stayed married for a couple of years.
In 1985, Ronnie (my husband, who I have known since I was 9 from Alpine church) came by my parents where I was staying . He had a son named Nathan, and , a daughter named Brooke. He had been married to Nancy Smith from school. They divorced and he had custody of the children.
About a week or 2 later, I went to see him at his place he had on Basswood Dr., I never left, that was February 16th 1985.
March 2, of that year, we got married. Now together we had 3 children.
In 1987 we had a dughter together, we named her Amber :}. When Amber was 11 months old, I got pregnant with our second daughter. We named her Candice :}
In 1991 we found a house in Brainerd. Later we purchased this house.
In 2000, for reasons I am not disclosing, I took Amber and Candice to Florida, where we lived until 2004.
I worked as a housekeeper and desk clerk @ Manatee Suites from May 2000 until February 2004. The hotel was a small property and was on the beach.
We started out in a room, moved to an apartment on the property. Later we moved to a nice townhouse on Palmetto Ave. We loved this place!
All the time we were in Florida Ronnie came down every 2 or 3 months, sometimes more often.
In 2001, Ronnie divorced me, later telling me this in an email.
On September 23rd 2003 Brooke had a son, Evan :}
In 2003 Amber got pregnant and on December 30th 2003, had my wonderful granddaughter..Audrey.
In February 2004, we moved back to Chattanooga. In 2006 Candice and I got an apartment in Red Bank.
I had the impression that Ronnie and I would remarry. This didn't happen until 2007. March 2nd 2007 we got remarried at the Chapel in Ringgold Ga. Finally a church wedding with a preacher! Needless to say, Candice and I moved back to the house :} <3 Home Sweet Home <3
I have worked for over 5 years now for Walmart. A few jobs in between the first 2 years @ the Brained Walmart and 3 @ the Hixson Walmart.
Ronnie had a job for over 22 years @ Arcade printing. In November 2008 he and all his co workers were permanently laid off from Arcade.
Now comes the part of Life as I know it..........