The Frogman

String!

I’ve scanned a bunch of our old photos and some of them are in bad shape. Faded and embedded with little specs of dust. I’m doing my best to bring them back to their former glory.

Above is my Grandma Grelle feeding me something I obviously can’t seem to keep inside my mouth. 

Good morning everyone. I’ve only been awake for an hour or so. It usually takes me about 12-14 hours to properly wake up. I have so much stuff to do and no energy to do it. The first thing on the list is to write my grandma a thank you note. Here is what I have so far. 

Thanks Grandma!

That’s probably not enough words. *sigh*

Frogman Nostalgia: My brother and I dealing with it. 

I was easily amused as a child. If my parents wanted me distracted, they would unplug the phone and I would call my imaginary friends. 

Back in the day, Ninja Turtles were all the rage. I was as big a fan as anybody. I watched the shows religiously. I had the Nintendo game (use Donatello. His bo has superior reach.) I saw the movie at the theater. Then I got the VHS and wore that bitch out.

Halloween came around and of course I had to be Michelangelo. The costumes in the store were expensive and a fancy rubber turtle mask cost more than all my baseball cards combined. And there was no way I was selling my Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. card. 

So my mom, seeing my disappointment, decided that she could use her sewing skills to make me a Ninja Turtle costume. We acquired a green sweatsuit and all the supplies necessary to make a shell and a turtle belly. She must’ve spent hours and hours at the sewing machine, getting everything just right. I had to have the orange bands. So she made me orange bands. I had to have nunchucks. That’s where my dad came in. Some rope, hot glue, and dowel rods took care of that. My mother finished the costume and I tried it on. I was happy at first, but then I realized that turtles only had 3 fingers. “Mom, I need to have 3 fingers!” She was exhausted from making this turtle costume and she proceeded to give me a look similar to this. 

And then I gave her a rebuttal look similar to this…

And with a grumble in her voice, she headed back to the sewing machine and proceed to figure out how to make 3 fingered turtle gloves. 

To this day she gives me a hard time about those gloves. But I will say they were awesome and I loved that costume very much. I wore it all year long. 

And that is why my mom, is my favorite mom of all the moms ever.