Wednesday, August 1, 2012

A walk down memory lane.......

My cousin sent me a packet of pictures most of which I had never seen.  At age 63 I saw myself as a baby for the first time.  Evidently they found these pictures when my Aunt died at age 96.  My other cousin had also sent me a few pictures a while ago.  The youngest and only picture I had of myself as a child was the one on this blog so these pictures are very precious to me.  Thank you dear cousins!  (I need to scan them but for now I just snapped pictures of them).

   Below is blurry but it's me with my Aunt Bernice who practically raised me.  She was married to my Mother's oldest brother.  There was 20 years between them so they were almost like Grandparents to me.  Plus, my Mother was a career woman and didn't have me until she was 34 years old.
 You can tell I'm old....look at those classic cars in the background!
 Below is my cousin Allen (my Aunt and Uncle's grandson and my Uncle Homer, my Mother's oldest brother..she was the youngest in the family of 6) and of course...me standing there.

I know now why I love horses so much.  Here I am with my cousin Allen (he's a year younger than I am...actually his Dad was my first cousin Allen was my second cousin) on board Chess.  I was 2 years old at the time.


Oh, and the dog, Queen (of Sheba #2...there was a long line of them).  I remember one of the Queens pulled my younger cousin Gus out of the river when he fell in one time.....literally saved his life!  They were all German Sheperds.  The man in the picture is my cousin Frank who saved my life one time when I was little when I crawled in to see the baby pigs.  All I remember is he reached over the fence and grabbed me by the back of the shirt and pulled me out before the mama pigs got me.    

This is my Mother, she was a nurse and she also went into the Army and became an Army nurse during WWII. (I think they "beefed" her up for the war as I've never seen my Mother so chunky! LOL!)

Below is more what I remember her like.........

Below is my high school graduation picture.  My Mother did have these pictures but when she died my step father got rid of all of her things. 


Well, there's my little trip down memory lane....well, my memory lane at least.  I hope I didn't bore you too much!  I was just so excited when I received them in the mail I just had to share them.  I hope you had a wonderful Wednesday!

11 comments:

  1. You were a cute baby Sam! Pretty graduate too!

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  2. What a wonderful treasures!!
    I am so happy for you that you now have these pictures... priceless!

    Thank you for sharing.

    Happy Aug. 1st my friend...

    {{hugs}}
    Kerin

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  3. oh wow..what wonderful pictures!! how fun to look at...you are very pretty!!

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  4. Oh how fun! I am glad to read you received a box full of memories!!!

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  5. I love old pictures. I'm so glad that you were able to get these. How cute you were and such a beautiful graduate. Your mother was a lovely lady.

    Thank you for sharing your past with us.

    Sharon

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  6. How wonderful, Sam, to receive all these lovely photos. I am so happy to hear that your cousins thought of you. And how awful that your stepfather just got rid of all your mother's things without thinking of family. The baby picture of you is just precious and I am sure all the photos brought back lots of memories. I have very few pictures from my childhood. When we were moving from Virginia to Mississippi or vice versa, the train with all our belongings blew up so we lost everything. That was when I was very little. So nice to get a glimpse of what you looked like back then. Have a great day. Tammy

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  7. Hi Sam,
    Great pictures! How cute. That is so nice that she gave them to you. Better get a few frames, I love the first picture and the graduation one.And your Mom.
    I see all your craft projects are moving right along. Sad to say I haven't made anything in a while. Seem to be stuck on reading.
    Still hot, not much rain.
    Nancy Jo

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  8. Hi Sam,
    Great pictures! How cute. That is so nice that she gave them to you. Better get a few frames, I love the first picture and the graduation one.And your Mom.
    I see all your craft projects are moving right along. Sad to say I haven't made anything in a while. Seem to be stuck on reading.
    Still hot, not much rain.
    Nancy Jo

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  9. What lovely pictures...how precious they must be to you.
    Love the pictures of your mum, she's such a beautiful lady....and what a great graduation picture!

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  10. How wonderful to have these photos. We are very close in age so our childhood photos look similar. I never rode a horse though! heehee! I love old photos...well...not that they are so old! haha! Hugs!

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  11. How wonderful to get such a package in the mail! I enjoyed all your old photos:)

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