Mama Kat Thursday: The Practical Joke
We moved to Eglin Air Base in August, 1985. Hubby had two children from a previous marriage, a boy and a girl, named Shane and Stacy that we'd have out to visit us in summers for a good number of years. Their step-Dad was in the Navy stationed on the west coast and we were in the Air Force stationed in the East, so summer was the only time they could visit and usually it was just a couple weeks. But in 1986, Shane happened to already be at our house several months before summer. He was 13 at the time. It's hard to remember exact details now, but there was some sort of altercation at his other home that motivated his Mom & step-Dad to put him on a plane and ship him out to us right in the middle of the spring school semester! So, he'd been living with us since around mid-March. We were living in base housing then, in a small two-bedroom unit that was part of a 4-plex of similar two-bedroom units. One of the unique features of living on base was the tornado siren,...