This set was a wedding gift to my parents in 1945. I wonder who gave it to them? There's nobody left to ask.
My mom gave them to me when Nick and I got married in 1972. Each bowl seems to have it's designated function and use, By default- no one assigned them
More later I have to run
Zooming is such a modern day miracle! Yes, I know that makes me sound like an old lady, but at 72, I guess I am entitled.
Courtney -oldest child and only daughter- set up a mother's day/ birthday zoom with all five of my kids, my husband and my sister .
I don't see the kids very often. They are all adults and their lives are busy. The are scattered around the US, so none of them or is is able to get together in person very often.
When we had a houseful (did we really do that??) we saw the kids ALL the time. Eating together, watching TV together, attending back to school nights and teacher conferences. We went to concerts and sports driving everyone here and there.
I enjoy my selective memory that allows me to fantasize about how wonderful it all was. Well, truth be told, it was not always fun. It was exhausting and often frustrating. Sometimes it was the kids, sometimes it was something or another concerning their schools, teachers, nasty neighborhood kids. Messes. Homework. Laundry.
Do I regret having kids? No. There are time that I wish things were different- like contacting me and writing all the time. But, wait, that would mean that they were clones of me and that's not who or what I want. And of course I wish that I had been more patient and kind all the time and I was not.
I love my kids. Of course I do. But the depth of my love and the intensity of how I feel about them is beyond words. And each one of them is so unique and different than the others. But they are all ours. Nick's and mine. They are Sherwoods for better or worse!
Happy Mother's Day
My cousins, Geri and Cheryl, sisters and friends sent me a fun birthday gift!
I just turned 72 and Geri turns 72 in a few weeks, so we are especially close.
Here we are, sitting on our grandfather's knees when we were around a year old. Our moms are sisters! Aunt Geri, Geri Lynn, Grandpa Rivers, me and my mom, Ruth
I posted a photo of myself in my "birthday suit" as a baby in a life preserver. We were traveling to Greece for my dad's assignment at the US Embassy. It was labeled that we were on a holiday to Greece, but in fact we lived there for two years.
Of course as you can see in that picture, I was a baby so don't remember a whole lot about Greece. I was three years old when we returned to the States.
Now I am going to post a passport picture that was taken for that trip. In 1955, children were on their mother's passport, so Carol, Dale and baby me were all in the photo with our mother.
Here's a picture of me now, at age 72!
Journaling by hand while watching TV
Jessica sewing on my mom's- her great grandmother's sewing machine!
