Monday, July 14, 2014

The Past Today

I texted back and forth with my brother White all day. He sent me some pictures from way, way back in time.

Here's me and my Baby Hank. I was a baby myself although I thought I was a full-grown woman.



Here's me with Baby Jessie. She was such a tiny sprite of a child. I sent this one to Jess and she texted back that she is wearing her hair today exactly the way I was in that picture.


And here's my Lily when she was about three. I think.



Okay. Wasn't she adorable?

All my babies were adorable. Still are for that matter. I need to get my brother to send me some of May as she is missing from this page. I'm sure he has a few. He's always been our picture taker. And he's a good one. It's sort of amazing to see these moments from the past, frozen in time, almost all of them long-forgotten by me.
Did we really look like that? What was my life like then? It's so odd not to remember what so obviously happened.

Wow.




15 comments:

  1. Um, May is absolutely on this blog -- right up at the top! Wow. She is you made over.

    Jessie looks like I did :) Although I did NOT grow up to be tall or a beauty like her!

    Owen looks just like Lily!!

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  2. Oh my, you KNOW I love these blasts from the past. LOVE them. I see Owen in Lily's face, such sweetness. And Jessie was always a beauty, wasn't she? And gosh, I love seeing you as a girl. All that responsibility. I want to just hug you close. You did so well with all of it. You should feel proud.

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  3. You look so young in the photo with Hank. Like you said, really like a young girl yourself. You have done well with all your children and they by you.

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  4. SJ- You are right! On all of those things. Except for the part about you not growing up beautiful. Hush yo', mouth, girl. You are a beauty.

    Angella- I wonder what I was thinking that day...
    Owen does take after his mama, doesn't he? But sometimes I see Jason in him so strongly. Funny how that works.

    Radish King- Back at you, sugar.

    Syd- I was twenty one or twenty two. Trying to be a good mother. Sometimes I was.

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  5. You look an adorable 14 in that 1st picture. It is unbelievable that you were old enough to take care of a baby - even though I know you were mothering before Hank. And look at Hank's gorgeous eyes! All the kids were so cute. Sweet Jo

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  6. It's enough to take my breath away. Here we are. The same. And different.

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  7. Adorable! I know what you mean about looking back at what seems unreal. I feel the same way when I look at pictures of myself from high school or college. It's like looking at a total stranger.

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  8. They are all beautiful. I have to agree with SJ, May is in that top picture. I also see Owen in the one of Lily. Gail

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  9. OMG! Lily does look exactly like Owen, if he had blonde curls.
    It is so strange yes, to look back at yourself, almost like your looking at someone else. Another lifetime.

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  10. Great photos, Mary. Your babies are beautiful. xoxo

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  11. For god's sake. The cuteness. Lily had her dad's eyes? You were adorable. Love the Jessie hair story, that's funny.

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  12. That picture of Lily is just too precious. I had to read the sentence about that being Hank a couple times because I figured that was you as a kid with one of your brothers.

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  13. Oh, god. I love all these photos. More, more, more Please!

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