Sentimental Sunday…

For some unknown reason I happen to be thinking about my Sundays of olden days (my childhood and youth). You know, back when we barely had TV. No playstations, no game boys, no cell phones, ipods, or any of that. Yes, I'm old enough that we didn't even have the sunday meeting block! We actually went to sunday school in the morning, went home for a few hours and came back for sacrament meeting. Primary, MIA (aka young men/young women) and Relief Society was held during the week on various days. Homemaking meetings were once a month and were really about the homemaking skills that are somewhat out of vogue now. Quilting, (for everyday use), canning, cooking, sewing, managing a home on your budget and so on. I know some of those things are still with us these days, but on a different level. We would have a nice sunday dinner, sometimes get in the car for a sunday drive and were known to just drop in and visit the home a family friend for a few minutes. Pretty laid back. 

Best of all were the evening hours. We all looked forward to the Sunday evening TV programming. I am really old. Not all the programming was even in color! One of my favorites to watch was the Wonderful World of Disney program. It was only for an hour but I loved to watch the various series they would play. Johnny Tremaine, Davy Crockett, various animal behavior shows done only the way Disney could, Johnny Appleseed, and many others. We viewed these shows as a family and also looked forward to other shows like Bonanza, The Man from Uncle and so on. The highlight was always Disney for me. Walt Disney usually had a little spiel he gave at the first of the show and then the Disney castle would appear and the song “When you wish upon a star…”. I was a faithful viewer long into Jr. High. and even sometimes in High School. I love those old stories.

I couldn't find an image of just the Disney Castle that used to be their logo, so had to settle for the castle in the Disneyland logo. I'm glad to see that Disney still plays such a big part of my grandkids lives. Not just on Sunday, but they provide good entertainment of a reasonably wholesome nature everyday on the Disney channel. Imagine that, a whole channel of just Disney. But that's what they do … imagine.