1	Happy Anniversary!!
2	For Mom and Dad Love Sue, Jack, Tawna, Mark, Cheryl, Ken, Lisa, Karen and Taylor, Jackson, Meghan, Heather, Abby, Elizabeth July 30, 2000
3	Part One - Our Homes
4	Our homes 91 Yale Street, Medford Nana and Pa Waiting for Dad on the porch in our PJs Sue wandering into the living room after bedtime – “I’m up again, you better hit me.” Dad rushing home when Nana Callahan helped with the laundry again
5	Our homes 36 Birchwood Road, Wilmington Back yard pool parties The beach sand The Campbells The Weiburgs Waiting for the ice cream man The boys’ room Filming the kids through the kitchen window
6	Our homes 15 Fifth Ave, Gloversville Hide and seek games The boys’ room The Gottungs Safety pins in every towel Going to Naif’s with a note for cigarettes
7	Our homes 10 Flintlock Drive, Scarborough Bernie Carbo’s home run The Charlie Brown Christmas trees The boys’ room The Kelleys The downstairs bathroom… … and nerf footballs
8	Our homes 275 Western Ave, Waterville O’Shea the dog The juz-a-cuzzi The electric bills The Bob Vila Christmas The Brunswick Condo Playing Jeopardy for a seat on the couch for the rest of the night
9	Our homes 4 Avenue Three, Scarborough Taylor coming out from behind the curtain The way-station parties for all the white water rafters The boys’ apartment Moving the mattress down Avenue 2
10	Our homes 38 King Street, Scarborough Mark and Cheryl’s after-wedding party The old kitchen The new kitchen Lisa and Tawna’s spot in front of the fire Claiming the pink room The dunk tank at the Callahan family reunion Never in this lifetime getting Mom and Dad’s mattress off the second floor
11	Part Two - Memory Lane
12	Do you remember? Side yard football Back yard baseball Street hockey in the driveway Volleyball at the Kelley’s Scarborough soccer, basketball and baseball games Scarborough track meets and pee wee hockey The emotional carnage that was Life Stories
13	Do you remember? Washington D.C. Disney World Sunday trips to Medford The Keen Boat Way Roaring Thunder Hole Base Bay Harbor Cottacation The natural paradise that was Gentiles Campground
14	Do you remember? The Flintlock Drive floods Mark doing his hair Where are they now…… Sonny Cordani The Unknown Jewel Thieves Hiding behind cereal boxes The below zero day when Jack’s tongue met the metal fence post Celebrity Guest
15	Do you remember? Tammy the dog… wherever she is Winnie… “Get in here!” The puppies (“Black and white. Black and white. Black and white. Black and white…”) Brandy… “Lay down!” All the rabbits, all the hamsters, and that @#%! cat in Wilmington Therese’s rabbit……………. oops.
16	Do you remember? Bogey The way he raced up and down the hall that first Christmas night His Felix imitation The way he “visited” every last gym bag on the hill When he locked Mom out of the car His flying leap off the back porch When that greyhound on the beach almost had him for breakfast And the way his tail wagged when he saw Karen’s bus go by
17	Remember when…? Mark would finish every paper route with two and a half papers left over Nana McCarthy couldn’t believe the twins wouldn’t eat their weight in Rolos. They wanted fruit, for Pete’s sake Jack forgot to rent the U-Haul to move to Ossipee Ken wouldn’t wear shoes for the Gloversville family picture Jack painted the entire Flintlock Drive house for the bargain basement price of one sweatsuit
18	Remember when…? The priest at Taylor’s Christening chased Cheryl out of the church Mom got drunk that Easter dinner and saw enormous rabbits in the restaurant hallway Jack carved his name in the chair and no one watched television Karen got into the Kashmar’s car, and helped herself to a Certs Steve Doucette “checked in” for Jack We could get in and out of the kitchen without climbing over gates
19	Remember when…? Mom played Taboo We all had to buy tickets for Karen’s shows 78 pound Mark lost 22 pounds catching the Brown Homes game Heather shot the bowling ball, ran back and reset the pins, and new pins were down by the time the ball got there Hamsters out of their cage meant Mom at the mall
20	Remember when…? Jack’s fly got stuck at the bus stop Karen swam in Fogg Pond Taylor had her first taste of popcorn Bill Mucci called and asked for Kenny and Dad said “Sorry, wrong number.” DJ called and talked Mom’s ear off Clancy had hair
21	Do you remember? Bucket baths The Three Cees Mark digging out his trombone and scaring the crap out of the dogs Lisa talked Dad into Inktomi Tawna got lost doing laundry at Cottacation The Hot Dog Roll mattress
22	Do you remember? The year Jack saw Rudolph’s nose Wiffle haircuts Snorkel jackets Ken counting his doubles The looks on all of our faces when Tawna poured herself that huge glass of orange juice
23	Do you remember? The spy at Nana Callahan’s wake Big Bird From Far Away Backyard-in-the-winter cake Arguing whose turn it was to watch for the bus as the bus was parked outside watching us Roy’s underwear
24	Do you remember? How Dad used to dive into the water sideways How Mark used to come out of the water sideways The alumni game The marathon The 15th hole at Willowdale when Dad’s 7 iron went flying
25	Remember when…? Karen held the Fourth of July banner The elf knocked over the Christmas tree Tuna-stuffed baked potatoes sounded like a good idea Jack was 18 and Karen bought him a toy machine gun for Christmas Jack was 19 and Karen bought him a rubber shark for Christmas
26	Remember when…? The St. Bernards left all the peas Mom was still wooing Lisa by turning up the heat Playing hide and seek Jack first hid in the fireplace and then against a white wall...big mistake! Cheryl almost went into labor over Karen’s clothespins Mark almost went into labor over Mom’s bikini photo
27	Remember when…? Karen went through her streaking phase Jack’s vocabulary homework all had a reference about streaking Sue didn’t cry Mark fell down and refused to go to school and Jack got in trouble Karen emptied out the dressers in the boys’ room and the boys got in trouble
28	Remember when…? Dad hurt his back and Karen brought all of her friends into see him If you couldn’t go to school, you couldn’t go outside Jack almost fell out of Mark and Cheryl’s house Dad would hide his beers behind the statue of the Virgin Mary Karen went to see the stallions at Scarborough Downs
29	Part Three - The Quotes
30	Quotes “May I be excused?” “Do the heat.” “Who’s making?” “Barely eight.” “The tree fell.” “Weather permitting.” “The important thing is that nobody got hurt.”
31	Quotes “Kram C.” “DuB DuB DuB to Jack form Ka.” “Stop at Al’s!” “Ain’tcha watchin’?!” “You know….Jack…the guy who lives with Nana.” “What were you told!” “WHO’S FLUSHING?!?!”
32	Quotes “What holiday is this anyways?” - Meghan, seeing the church steeples at Abby’s Christening “I’m too young to sleep over.” - Heather “This is Jack in 2008… Do you have the quarter with the eagle on the back?” - Jackson “For everything else there’s Mastercard.” - Taylor, in church, having heard the priest say that money can’t buy everything
33	Quotes “Side by each. Side by two.” “Oosies.” “Put a sweater on.” “Nana, why do you call them ‘shots’?” “Carry you.” “Upaaaah.” “Half and haaaaf.”
34	Quotes “Toot toot the Rube!” “F.H.B!” “Ahhh sportswriters.” “The second wind.” “Ree-o Speedwagon.” “You don’t have to come but we would like you to come.”
35	Quotes “She waddles.” Heather seeing Clancy for the first time “Nana. Walk. Baby. Dog.” “They can’t be all Sky Bars.” “It’s a good thing you didn’t have a Big One.” “Down out and down.” “Run Taylor, run!” “Is it a freebie, or did you pay for it?”
36	Quotes “Shower first!” “Hummels!” “How much more longer?”…”Fifteen minutes.” “Macaroni fish.” “Hi Jim!” “I had a girl!”
37	Quotes “No hats at the table.” “Hoboken hot.” “Waterville tired.” “Mr. Wiggly.” “I think I felt a twinge.” Dad, when he thought his mumps were going south
38	Quotes “I’d rather have no dog than a small dog.” Karen. Boy, she’s never gonna live that over “They won’t develop it!” “Jack I think he got me!” Ken, when that bat-sized tick got him in the neck “CAE-SER!!!!!” “Jack!… Is Dad giving up… playing with George? DAD!… is giving up… with George.”
39	Part Four - The Injuries
40	Ouch! Jack’s finger Mark’s nose Sue’s teeth Karen’s face for the first day of kindergarten Ken’s sunburn, first trip to Florida Mom’s elbow down that potato-sack slide at Funtown
41	Ouch! Dad’s back, sliding into third base Dad’s finger, cutting forms for Mom on the kitchen table Dad’s glasses and hat, when he tried to field that kick-off with his face Dad’s head, when the attic spring snapped off (Geez, that had to hurt.) Dad’s nose, when Ralf dropped from the sky and pivoted off his face
42	Ouch! When you put your hands in Chick’s dishwater When Mark and Cheryl joined the rafting swim club – “They do everything together!” When Tawna tripped Sue in side yard football When that scary varmint thing in Sue’s apartment wrapped itself around Ken’s leg
43	Ouch! When Jack nearly dropped the flagpole on Mark When Mark put that Babe Ruth swing across Jack’s back When Ken fell off Jack’s roof When Mark and Sue smacked going across the middle in side yard football When Karen cracked her head open at the Manzi’s When Pete Parras took that slapshot in the pills
44	Ouch! Dad backing into the closed garage door but taking a hammer and being able to bang the door back into shape Jack backing into the same garage door later that week and finishing it off The tire falling off the convertible Mom falling down the steps at Craig’s wedding
45	Ouch! That car-length piece of chrome in the palm of Dad’s hand, with Mom asking, “Do you think Chick will notice?” The Foster’s mailbox That hockey night accident down Mom’s Curve That poor stop sign in Medford The car doing circles by itself after Mom locked the doors with it still in gear Mom’s brand new book of Rotary Etiquette around that intersection in Old Orchard Beach
46	Ouch! Jack’s casts on his legs Mark’s fractured skull Ken’s black eye, first trip to Florida Mark and Jack ripping Sue’s doll in two Karen being hit by the pigeon Every single blessed ten-below winter night downstairs on Flintlock Drive
47	Ouch! Bob Manzi sliding across that rock in Newport Lisa’s face plant while skating on Lake Wentworth Ernie the ambulance driver stopping at the toll both Jack’s double vision Karen clipping that poor child with her sled
48	Ouch! When Jack bit Taylor’s finger Jackson’s nose when Dad threw him that pop fly Dad’s forehead, when that suction cup thing finally came off Dad’s leg cramp after biking Hoof and mouth disease
49	Part Five - The Callahans
50	The Callahans To be playing outside all day and hear Dad’s “Come Home” whistle To be bleeding from the eyes all day and hear Mom’s “Take a hot bath.” Smiling Hill Farm The look on Jack’s face just after he said “It’s a girl.” when Taylor was born Dad’s Sunday morning breakfast
51	The Callahans Jordan’s Beach Christmas projects every year Finishing Christmas projects every year Grandma Nellie stories The Galway Bay The ring ding heart monitor on Jackson’s chest
52	The Callahans The Steno Pad Twas the Night Before Christmas as read by Dad in Karen’s bed When Mark called to say they were having twins When Cheryl got on the phone and then we believed it Mom’s Sunday dinners
53	The Callahans The Flintlock Drive Hall of Fame Dressing all seven of us alike and taking us out in public Clapping at the price of Christmas gifts TWELVE hours of labor and then doing a c-section for Abby Eliz-a-breaths
54	The Callahans Nana’s Beach Sunday night cereal, baths and Disney movies The Callahan sign Dad leading us down the hallway Christmas morning, backs to the wall, wondering if Santa was still there, scared to death he’d catch us, hoping and praying he had come, and always finding he had
55	"Home again" Home again, home again, jiggety jig
56	The End