I remember when DP visited Madison once in the 90's we saw Get Shorty at the old Hilldale movie theater which was located about where Target is now.

I remember walking with Daniel from downtown Winfield, KS, to the dorm after we had been to the movie theater.

I remember a visit from the Stained Saints.

I remember Henry pulling on his mom's hair and sucking his thumb.

I remember Mrs. Hardy reading us The Outsiders during 3rd period Reading class in 7th grade.

I remember taking Sophie to ballet class in her cute pink outfit.

I remember the last time the Packers won a Super Bowl I watched it with Dad at High Point Woods.

I remember Dan Paul didn't like many vegetables.

I remember getting a guided tour of Wartburg but at Luther College we didn't schedule one, which is probably what tipped the scales.

I remember Danielle was often teased by her brothers.

I remember sleeping three brothers in a bed in an army tent on our farm in Mulberry Hollow.

I remember how exciting it was to switch bedrooms as a kid.

I remember Mark liked butterscotch shakes.

I remember a long heavy snowy ride home from school and work one day when Mom had to pick up everybody after school canceled early.

I remember running for Student Council secretary in high school and being beaten resoundingly by Jane Buchanan.

I remember many many times opening Box 713 in the Wartburg mail room to find a letter from Mom.

I remember sitting in a downtown Chicago restaurant on May 10, 2002 and reluctantly announcing Nicole's upcoming divorce because Aunt Lou wanted more info after overhearing my cryptic comment to Danielle.

I remember Sophie and Henry riding in our car and teasing me by rolling windows down when I rolled them up.

I remember Daniel growing a really long beard to play some Bible character in a play at Our Savior's Lutheran Church.

I remember wondering what it would be like when Henry was old enough to have conversations with Sophie.

I remember Henry and I playing with Beyblades when we were kids and Henry dressing up as the protagonist of the show one Halloween.

I remember Sophie and Henry sitting close together on the sofa -- playing some kind of electronic game -- giggling at whatever was on the screen.

I remember staying up late in high school to watch shows like David Letterman and SCTV with Danielle and trying to be extra quiet for the sake of sleeping family members.

I remember Dan Paul going to Mrs. Giffin's pre-school several mornings a week and then going to Gloria Sharp's home in the afternoons. (I CAN'T remember where Dan Paul stayed the other days.)

I remember arriving back in Madison with Chris in a snowstorm after having weathered Y2K in Jeff City.

I remember the first time that I had an indication that Danielle had allergies was when she came home with symptoms after spending a night with Sarah Vida and her cat.

I remember the men's bathrooms in the old Godfrey Kahn building in downtown Milwaukee still had built-in ashtrays between the urinals, a remnant of the good old days I suppose.

I remember Mark getting a very bad case of poison ivy.

I remember Jackson's two boys always wanting to come play in my large attic bedroom in Minneapolis early weekend mornings when everyone else in the house was asleep.

I remember playing/practicing "jacks" for hours on end -- trying to get to the final level. (I guess "jacks" was an early type of level game.)

I remember Dad digging a trench for some reason (perhaps for a pipe?) westward from the garage at 5288.

I remember Daniel running for Dodge county supervisor.

I remember helping Henry put together several Lego kits -- although he put together many more than I did without help.

I remember back in the early 2000's when you could still come across tons of clunky homemade websites devoted to all sorts of unexpected and delightful things.

I remember the last time I got badly sunburned was Denver 1992 at Lollapalooza with Danielle and Brenda.

I remember Sophie having lots of Barbie dolls.

I remember Mom lining our winter boots with plastic bread bags so our socks wouldn't get wet.

I remember Dan Paul bundled up like a little Eskimo to go play in the snow.

I remember buying my first car stereo at Montgomery Ward on Missouri Blvd. in Jeff City, probably in 1990.

I remember Danielle dating Doug Gaskin in high school.

I remember when I cleaned full-time at night I'd go outside and practice identifying constellations.

I remember how forlorn Mark looked -- and how sad I felt -- when we dropped him off at college and drove away.

I remember when I cleaned full-time at night I'd practice whistling.

I remember my Grandpa Larwig had a prickly beard and smelled of pipe tobacco.

I remember when I cleaned full-time at night I'd memorize poems and long passages that I liked from books.

I remember Daniel digging bushels of potatoes out of the mud on the farm near Honey Creek.

I remember a girl who leaned in my car window at a stop sign in Bloomington MN and surprised me so much by asking for a ride that I agreed without thinking and drove her just a few blocks down the road.

I remember finding out (later in life) from Dan Paul's former teacher that he was an outstanding student in Latin.

I remember when it was 20 degrees below zero and Tien walked three miles home from work.

I remember Dan Paul ordering a fish sandwich without tartar sauce when we ate at McDonald's.

I remember when I first started regularly listening to a Top 40 station in 1982 on a little clock radio.

I remember lying in the grass as a child and watching the clouds.

I remember eating many OKC holiday dinners in the breakfast nook with the other kids and Aunt Lou Lou.

I remember Sophie and Henry sitting in their little car seats every time we went on an excursion.

I remember yellow lab Samantha in Minneapolis and how much she loved to be scratched behind her silky soft ears.

I remember the many, many, many wild cats that found refuge in the Beelers' yard and how Chris laboriously trapped them and took them out to the country.

I remember the last time I saw Darlene was in their garage when Chris and I were trying to start a fire with flint and magnesium.

I remember Mark writing a modern-day paraphrase of "Joseph and His Coat of Many Colors".

I remember the first time we went to Royal Gorge in Colorado and Danielle ran fearlessly and leaned over a railing on the edge of a couple thousand foot drop down into the Colorado River.

I remember the third time I was in Madison I visited Danielle on Doty St. not too long after she'd left Iowa.

I remember DP and Dad driving to the Black Hills one summer.

I remember the second time I visited Madison was in 1993 when Jen had an interview downtown for a summer internship at The Progressive.

I remember wearing lots of petticoats in junior high school.

I remember when we first moved to Veil Of Tears in 1975 our telephone was on a party line that we shared with neighbors.

I remember Sophie's "stink eye" expression.