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Feb. 1st, 2025 06:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedMom showed me these three placemats she found at Savers yesterday, all together, that we already have our own copies of, that she considered giving to Maris. One each of five different layers of the human body, the United States of America, and the world.
We also used to have one each of the anatomy of different parts of the body, the periodic table of the elements, and all our different presidents up through Clinton (this was back in the '90s). (Mom actually wondered what happened to the elements one, but figured Maris would be too young to understand that one.)
Mainly, we used to distribute five of them around the table for dinner, and with the map placemats, our parents would play this game with us to find different cities or countries.
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Now that we're making use of it again, but more particularly after I was previously going to create game playthroughs for YouTube there that would start with me showcasing my different resources, I asked Mom last night why we keep calling part of the main house a porch, when that word normally refers to some kind of deck. She chalked it up to force of habit.
According to her, that L-shaped space did in fact used to be a porch. However, at some point after Dad's family bought the house, it was gradually converted into an actual room, which had become an office by the time I was born, with a drafting table that Dad used and a couple of desks, one of which had drawers and a chair space each on two opposite sides for my parents to work simultaneously on stuff. It would also become home in 1992 to our first computer, up through what would be Dad's final computer that he and Mom moved a decade ago into a small alcove in the living room (still there).
That in turn must have been when Dad started renovating that whole space. He did manage to put new flooring in during that project, but currently, the room is still full of bare concrete.
We also used to have one each of the anatomy of different parts of the body, the periodic table of the elements, and all our different presidents up through Clinton (this was back in the '90s). (Mom actually wondered what happened to the elements one, but figured Maris would be too young to understand that one.)
Mainly, we used to distribute five of them around the table for dinner, and with the map placemats, our parents would play this game with us to find different cities or countries.
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Now that we're making use of it again, but more particularly after I was previously going to create game playthroughs for YouTube there that would start with me showcasing my different resources, I asked Mom last night why we keep calling part of the main house a porch, when that word normally refers to some kind of deck. She chalked it up to force of habit.
According to her, that L-shaped space did in fact used to be a porch. However, at some point after Dad's family bought the house, it was gradually converted into an actual room, which had become an office by the time I was born, with a drafting table that Dad used and a couple of desks, one of which had drawers and a chair space each on two opposite sides for my parents to work simultaneously on stuff. It would also become home in 1992 to our first computer, up through what would be Dad's final computer that he and Mom moved a decade ago into a small alcove in the living room (still there).
That in turn must have been when Dad started renovating that whole space. He did manage to put new flooring in during that project, but currently, the room is still full of bare concrete.