Good Times! Good Times!

Tonight we ate at a Mexican restaurant that has been around for years and years on the south side of OKC.  Many, many of the stores around the area are now closed and replaced by a hospital and parking lot.  Still, tonight we had moments of nostalgia remembering the times when the kids were little, mom and dad were still alive, and the future was still ahead of us.  We remembered the theater next to the restaurant where we saw "King Kong" with Mom and Dad.  S. loved that movie and Dad was just as thrilled.  We remembered Streets, a women's department store, nearby where mom bought a coat on a cold evening.  Then we remembered the OTASCO store where we bought S. his first little battery powered 4 wheel vehicle.  Santa really thought he was doing something when he found it marked down on Christmas Eve.

Streets, the movie theater, and OTASCO, they're all gone now.  Things change, sometimes for the better, but oft not, but we must look forward.  There are lots of good things still to come.  Look forward and keep your eyes open for the good things for they very well will become your good times, but now and again look back and see how far you have come.  Good Times!  Good Times!