Sunday, July 10, 2022
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Micheal (Mike to his family) was my youngest brother. I remember when he was brought home from the hospital. I was a little annoyed that he was a boy. I so wanted to even our family out at 4 girls and 4 boys.. How dare he be a boy. After about a day or a week or a minute I loved him anyway. He was an annoyance as most little brothers are but we played together a lot.. We played school and of course I had to be the teacher. We played dinkies in the yard and the ditch. We played outside until the street lights came on. We played some silly game on the back steps, much like the ones at his home today, with a rock and questions that you had to answer correctly to proceed to the next step. Silly childhood games. As an adult our get togethers usually involved BBQ''s for birthdays or Christmas get togethers, pretty much anything involving food.. Mike loved to eat. His favourite foods in my mind were lobsters and sweets, especially haystack (no bake chocolate coconut) cookies. Mike was a simple man who enjoyed the simple things in life. He neve missed a family event although he did manage to get lost trying to find my place. We just waited and eventually he found me because of course there was food and family and he wasn't missing out on that. Mike was he baby of the family and he grew into a loving, caring man. I will miss him. Love always Sharon
