~ Photo hunt ~

This week's theme is: SKINNY

This photo was taken in 1969 when I was 21, and my first son was about a year old. Those were some skinny arms! I weighed all of 80 pounds (soakin' wet)

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" See it Sunday " photo meme ~

This week's theme is: OLD

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" Show and Tell Friday "...

is hosted by Kelli over at "there is no place like home".

A few years ago, we were replacing the bathroom floor in my Mom's house. The original floor had been put down many years before with the anticipated "indoor plumbing". When we took up the old boards we found several layers of newspaper underneath to help insulate the floor. I enjoyed looking through these worn and faded papers and decided to keep some. Recently I came across them when I was cleaning a closet.
Check out these styles and prices: ( THE YEAR WAS 1944)

I apologize for the quality and darkness of the photos.

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What the heck is this?

Are you old enough to remember one of these?

Portable hair dryers that came in a little case with an electric manicure set.
It had a jumbo bonnet for those juice can size rollers that we used in the 60's!

I was around 20 years old in this picture. I had been married for 2 years and just had my first baby (I know, I look like I was about 12!)

I haven't had rollers in my hair for almost 25 years. Thank goodness for blow dryers and curling irons!

See it Sunday

This week's " See it Sunday " theme is ~MONEY~

This photo was taken in 1986, when Sarah was about 8 years old. Want to see more "See it Sunday" photos?........... click here.

Dionne Quintuplets

The world's first surviving quintuplets On May 28, 1934, Oliva and Elzire Dionne of Corbeil, Ontario became the parents of five tiny baby girls: Annette, Emilie, Yvonne, Cecile and Marie. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe helped deliver the premature babies, who together weighed about 13.6 pounds. The identical quintuplets were the first quintuplets in the world to survive more than a few days. News of the miracle babies soon spread to newspapers around the globe.

Oliva Dionne was a poor French-Canadian farmer. His wife Elzire was twenty-five when the quintuplets were born--and already the mother of six other children. They were put by an open stove to keep warm, and mothers from surrounding villages brought breast milk for them. Against all expectations, they survived their first weeks.

The girls grew up in a compound, away from their family. For nine years the quintuplets lived in a sort of theme park know as "Quintland", to which about three million tourists came to observe them through a one-way screen. The little girls became a major visitor attraction for the province of Ontario, bringing in an estimated $250 million dollars per year in today's dollars.

Above is a postcard, dated 1939, that my aunt sent to my grandmother from "Quintland ".
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Good Old Days.....

This was my fourth grade class picture. I'm the in the middle, top row. I was always the smallest in my class. I can still remember each of their names, but I probably can't tell you things that happened last week ! Isn't that a sign of old age?

This is one of the few photos of my parents, probably taken around 1945.

This photo was taken around 1953. I'm the little one in the front with the bibbed jeans and my hair up under a scarf. There are 3 sets of cousins in this photo. We were out in the country visiting relatives and it looks like we kids had been running around all day, getting sweaty and dirty and someone decided to take our picture....Dear Lord!

Things That Make Me Smile....

Randi , over at http://ihavetosay.typepad.com/ is hosting ~ Let's get real Monday . The theme is " my favorite things ". So I decided to make a list of some things that make me smile !

Teapots, teacups and old plates

Johnny Jump - ups

Sudden Spring showers

Birds at the birdbath

Old leaning barns

Antique lace doilies

Sunday afternoon naps

Relaxing bubble baths

Happy giggling children

Old romantic movies

Seed packets and gardening gloves

Wooden fences

Unexpected back rubs

Terra cotta pots

Dried flower wreaths

Embroidered handkerchiefs

Vintage glassware

Family stories

Warm sunshine

And most of all, having good friends !!

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