Stars of the day, who will they be?

Remember the old talent show, Community Opticians? It aired on Sunday mornings in the Boston area along with "The Adventures of Gumby and Pokey". In the "old days", we didn't have the wide selection of choices that the networks provide today. The closing melody from Community Opticians went like this:

Star of the day, who will it be? Your vote may hold the key.
It's up to you, to tell us who, will be star of the day.

After the show, you'd be asked to vote on your favorite act. Nowadays, you'd probably be asked to "txt" using a cell phone, but back then, you wrote in or perhaps called on the old rotary phone and the "winners" would be announced the following week. So, on Sundays following the 8:30 mass, you could count on my sisters to lay claim to the one TV in order to watch their program.

After a long courtship and subsequent marriage, my sister-in-law and brother announced that they were expecting twins. This was fantastic news because they were an older couple by some standards or at least my brother was, and this news was about to change their lives forever. When Mother Nature finally started labor, it was the 1st of March. This was an omen because each family already had a set of twins whose birthday was on the 1st. However, after some 48 hours of "labor", Miss Pickslix arrived at the dance, and due to a genetically linked gene from his father, Chachi came some 2 hours later. Fortunately, the whole family was healthy and well. Although a severe snow storm had hit while they were in the hospital, mom and dad were determined to get their newborns home. As I recall, when they arrived on Sparhawk St., they had to hoist them over some very large snow banks to even get them into the house, and their mother literally followed "behind", due to her anemically low blood count.

Now that the "boy" and the "girl" have grown up some, they have started school, ride the bus, play baseball, basketball, and attend swim and dance lessons. Miss Picks has even been known to help Grandpa with his insulin shots, a Florence Nightingale in the making.

Recently we watched an old movie together, "The Court Jester" with Danny Kaye, and I was reminded just how bright these two kids are. They were able to repeat his famous lines which go like this, "the vessel with the pestle has the pellet with the poison, and the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true". They could recite that little jingle in no time at all. Youth, what a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday you "jesters", and remember, you two will always be "stars" in my eyes!