‘member that afternoon when i was really, really cranky so my mom sent me to take a nap even though i was like seven? and ‘member how i completely agreed with her, but as i was trying to fall asleep, every one else in was in the kitchen having the time of their lives while i was unfairly stuck in my room to take a nap?

‘member how i decided the best thing to do was to send them a message telling them of my struggle to fall asleep as they were having such fun?

‘member how i literally “sent them a message” via paper airplane? but ‘member how i was awful at making paper airplanes, so mine only flew like two feet and didn’t get anywhere near them? ‘member how no one even noticed that i was out of my room and trying desperately to send them a paper airplane so i started waving and making noises and stuff but they still didn’t notice me?

‘member how i was now also infuriated by the fact that they didn’t notice me that i made a sign that said,

and ‘member i cleared my throat real loud so everyone in the kitchen noticed me and i pointed to the sign i had placed on the ledge but everyone just looked at me all confused and such and so i read the sign out loud in my nastiest of voices and marched back up the stairs to my room and took a nap?

yeah, my mom was right, i did need a nap.

[it’s ‘member that time monday at the van voorst‘s blog!]

‘member that time when i decided i wanted to be truly evil? ‘member how i decided that the most evil thing i could do was to trick my brother mark into getting in trouble?

so ‘member how i took him to the basement and handed him scissors and told him to cut my dress? it took some convincing but ‘member how i finally got him to cut through about an inch of the hem of my dress and then i immediately ran up the stairs to my mom and yelled, “mark cut my dress!?”

she believed my brother and i got in trouble.

dang it.

ps: happy 21st birthday to mark in three days!

[it’s ‘member that time monday at the van voorst‘s blog!]

‘member that time when my baby sister was born on my six and halfth birthday? and i was just so excited to finally have a sister?

‘member how my grandma was all like, hey lisagrace, let’s get some new clothes for your sister at target, could you help me find it? and i was all like, yeah, i’m six and a half, i can give good directions to target.

‘member how i knew where the first turn was, but i just could not figure out where the second turn was and i kept telling my grandma to turn right one block too early? ‘member how we went in like six circles before my grandma just stopped at a gas station and asked where it was and the dude was all like, yeah, it’s just like a block over.

and now when i’m lost, i always go further then i think i should.

[it’s ‘member that time monday at the van voorst‘s blog!]

‘member that one day when my big brother levi was left in charge of us for a while? ‘member how i was being incredibly annoying while he was washing the floor? ‘member how i kept singing [and managed to get my brother mark on board too] my own little parody to an amy grant twila paris song [as corrected by my mother] where i repeated over and over in a sing-song voice: “god is innnnn control! not leviiiiiiii!” ‘member how i sang it so much and taunted him about bossing me around that eventually i got him to crack and he ran after me, tackled me to the ground and started jumping on me in a rage fit for an eleven year old?

and ‘member how he ended up spraining my wrist and my parents made him pay for the doctor’s bill?

yeah, i was a horrible little sister sometimes.

[it’s ‘member that time monday at the van voorst‘s blog!]

‘member that time when my family re-wrote that one famous car-x song? you know, the one where it’s all like, “rumble, rumble, clatter, clatter, piece of crap caaaaarrrrr? don’t worry, call the car-x man!” [those aren’t the exact lyrics, but you get the idea]

well, anyway, ‘member how we thought we were really clever to substitute the lyrics for our names? and ‘member how we had the perfect amount of syllables between all of our names, that it was almost as if my parents planned it that way?

for those of you who know the song i’m talking about, here’s the von duvick family version:

rolf, ami, luke and levi, lisagrace toooooo…..mark, adam and alyssa joy!

pretty amazing stuff.

[it’s ‘member that time monday at the van voorst‘s blog!]

‘member that time when my family and i were at a get-together with families from our old church and hadn’t seen all the girls in a while? and ‘member how i felt like they didn’t want to play with me, but really they were just talking about stuff i didn’t know about because i didn’t go to their church anymore? and ‘member how i went and hid in a room behind a projector screen and no one came looking for me and how that made me feel even worse about myself?

so ‘member how i cried in the car ride home and told my mom how all the church girls were mean to me and they didn’t want to play so i hid from them?

and she was all like, “lisagrace, sometimes you have to be a friend to have friends.”

yeah, i’m totally gonna use that on my kids.

[it’s ‘member that time monday at the van voorst‘s blog!]