First Memories-by Marilyn Ruesch Schneider

 

First Memories-by Marilyn Merle Ruesch Schneider (written approx. 1988)

Story Key: I=Marilyn Ruesch Schneider,  Brother=David Arthur ("Art") Ruesch, Father=David Lemar Ruesch, Mother=Lenore McFarlane Ruesch

My earliest memory was when I was about 2 years old.  My brother and I were cuddled in my mothers lap.  My brother was nursing.  I asked my mother "Can I have some too?" Mother laughed and said "you can, but I don't think you'd like it"

Another early memory is sitting and waiting and waiting and waiting on the sidewalk for what seemed like hours.  My friend Ann had left me, saying, "I'll be back in a minute".  I remember thinking that a minute was a long time--a very, very, long time!

I remember my mother reading nursery rhymes to us.  She had quotations for every occasion and we heard them daily.  She reminded us frequently that she has been an English major in college.  She wanted us to learn to appreciate great literature as she had learned to do in school.

There was always a war going on between my father and mother about who was the most learned, the better student, the most knowledgeable about current affairs, the most high-class in his tastes-actually, a war over everything that mattered to either of them.