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I am not still traumatized by what happened at the dinner table one night at a entire family function, when my Mother announced to all, aunts, uncles, cousins (some of them were/are BOYS!!!)
That I had attained womanhood and had started my period.
I remember the hot flash of total embarrassment, so much so I think I crawled under the table.
The whole famalia toasted me (now hiding under the table) to my new womanhood, raising their glasses of paisan...CLINK!!!
The same thing happened a few weeks earlier when I got my first bra~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mind you, I am the oldest, and this never happened to any of my 4 siblings, a sister & 2 brothers (the messiahs) were last.
Mom & family learned that some things are best whispered......not announced & toasted in present.
I bet T-Hi has similar things happen growing up in her Italian family.
NOTE: Dad is a Scot, full blood, Mom is full Italian, and I am the only child of 4 that is blonde & green eyed, all the rest were brown/brown.
My heritage resembles the holiday at the moment.
Sounds like you are from my family! I had a slumber party when I was in 7th grade and one of my friend's mom's told my mother why her daughter wouldn't be swimming. Mom announced it at the BBQ we had that evening, and of course my older brother was there with some of his friends who were over to check out some of my friends! I made up my mind right then that I woulf NEVER tell my mother when that time came for me, and I never have! Of course mom left me in the dark about the entire thing anyways. I remember the nurse in 5th grade, after "The Talk" with boys in one room and girls in another. After a week of special classes she asked if anyone had started. I raised my hand and shouted out that when I was 5 I borrowed my brothers bicycle and fell really hard against the bar. I can still see the look on the poor nurse's face!
....and the bra. I asked my mom for one in 7th grade because I was embarassed to be the only girl in the locker room without one. Mom announced that at the dinner table as well "You know what she asked me for last night? A BRA!!! I mean whatever for? She's as flat as the Great Plateau!" I was mortified. My best friend was having dinner with us then, and felt so bad for me she gave me her bras she'd outgrown. This gal could smother herself doing a hand-stand in the 5th grade, even now I doubt they'd fit!
Since we are sharing our moments.....My mother took me to buy a bra at our local JC Penney's. It used to be a small and crowded store in downtown Omak. We were with one of my mother's friends. We went to look for bras. Jan (the friend) asked - loudly - what did I need a bra for I was flat as a board...then she proceeded to "feel me up" (for lack of better verbage) to see if I really had anything or not.
The one very outloud thing my mother did was ask if I had remember my rubbers - meaning rubber bands - for my braces. She asked this in the middle of the Wenatchee Mall - lots of teenagers running around. Very mortified. Sounded like she yelled this (she of course did not but to my teenage brain it sounded like it).
these are my two memorable/horrifying moments in childhood that are burned into my brain.
I am not still traumatized by what happened at the dinner table one night at a entire family function, when my Mother announced to all, aunts, uncles, cousins (some of them were/are BOYS!!!)
That I had attained womanhood and had started my period.
I remember the hot flash of total embarrassment, so much so I think I crawled under the table.
The whole famalia toasted me (now hiding under the table) to my new womanhood, raising their glasses of paisan...CLINK!!!
The same thing happened a few weeks earlier when I got my first bra~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mind you, I am the oldest, and this never happened to any of my 4 siblings, a sister & 2 brothers (the messiahs) were last.
Mom & family learned that some things are best whispered......not announced & toasted in present.
I bet T-Hi has similar things happen growing up in her Italian family.
NOTE: Dad is a Scot, full blood, Mom is full Italian, and I am the only child of 4 that is blonde & green eyed, all the rest were brown/brown.
My heritage resembles the holiday at the moment.
Sounds like you are from my family! I had a slumber party when I was in 7th grade and one of my friend's mom's told my mother why her daughter wouldn't be swimming. Mom announced it at the BBQ we had that evening, and of course my older brother was there with some of his friends who were over to check out some of my friends! I made up my mind right then that I woulf NEVER tell my mother when that time came for me, and I never have! Of course mom left me in the dark about the entire thing anyways. I remember the nurse in 5th grade, after "The Talk" with boys in one room and girls in another. After a week of special classes she asked if anyone had started. I raised my hand and shouted out that when I was 5 I borrowed my brothers bicycle and fell really hard against the bar. I can still see the look on the poor nurse's face!
....and the bra. I asked my mom for one in 7th grade because I was embarassed to be the only girl in the locker room without one. Mom announced that at the dinner table as well "You know what she asked me for last night? A BRA!!! I mean whatever for? She's as flat as the Great Plateau!" I was mortified. My best friend was having dinner with us then, and felt so bad for me she gave me her bras she'd outgrown. This gal could smother herself doing a hand-stand in the 5th grade, even now I doubt they'd fit!
Since we are sharing our moments.....My mother took me to buy a bra at our local JC Penney's. It used to be a small and crowded store in downtown Omak. We were with one of my mother's friends. We went to look for bras. Jan (the friend) asked - loudly - what did I need a bra for I was flat as a board...then she proceeded to "feel me up" (for lack of better verbage) to see if I really had anything or not.
The one very outloud thing my mother did was ask if I had remember my rubbers - meaning rubber bands - for my braces. She asked this in the middle of the Wenatchee Mall - lots of teenagers running around. Very mortified. Sounded like she yelled this (she of course did not but to my teenage brain it sounded like it).
these are my two memorable/horrifying moments in childhood that are burned into my brain.
