"O" - SHE WANTED TO LIVE NEAR THE OCEAN

Water activities ruled!  Everyone swam, skied, floated down rice canals - anything to be in or near water.  Teenagers gathered at Cow Creek to picnic and swim, and sometimes traveled to McFaddin or Gilchrist beach.  There was a "Miss Water Sports - 1959" beauty contest in Orange, Texas, that most of the high school girls entered.   

"N" - SHE WANTED TO TAKE CARE OF OTHERS (NURTURE)

  I enjoyed taking care of my dolls - "Kay", a Toni doll that survived many permanents and shampoos; "Barbara", a Madame Alexander ballerina that arrived in a pink satin and net tutu, and an 8" Vogue Ginny doll that I especially loved.  I made clothes for "Ginny", and kept her outfits washed, starched and ironed.   

"M" - SHE WANTED TO BE A MOM

I could hardly wait to be a mom, although I didn't really know what that meant!   I wanted a boy and a girl as in the song "Tea For Two" - they would be twins named Jimmy and Jane.

"L" - SHE WANTED SOMEONE TO LOVE

She was in love with love.  She was in love many times and her feelings sometimes changed in one day.  She was eager to find "the one" who was supposed to be just around the corner. 

"K" - SHE WANTED TO BE KISSED

What can I say about this?  We all wanted to be kissed.   We could hardly wait to be kissed.  My first real kiss was in the ninth grade which seems so very young now.

"J" - SHE KEPT JOURNALS AND SCRAPBOOKS

I was encouraged by my mother to keep journals and scrapbooks containing things that interested me or caught my eye - mostly cut from magazines.  Prized images and writings were usually arranged haphazardly and glued for posterity.   

"I" - HER IMAGE WAS IMPORTANT

We spent hours trying to look our best and wanted others to agree that we'd done a good job!