Mother's Day

May 11, 2008 at 3:54 AM
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It's Mother's Day! I got all my text messages from Australia yesterday because if they don't do it then, the kids forget on (their) Monday. I also received some beautiful flowers.

My sister has most of our old family photographs so I don't have any of my young mother except a few I took myself. My first camera was a little Kodak Instamatic. Here is the family in 1965 - of course I am behind the lens so I am not in the photo:

FAmily 1965

This is a photo which was taken by my grandfather and which my mother "coloured". It was taken before my mother & father went on an overseas trip (to visit his mother) and all four kids were given one of mum & dad so we remembered what they looked like! I have had mine on display in a duo-frame since I was given them in 1974.

Mum 1974 a

Here is me as a mummy. The Princess was being held by her father in the photo - but as he is an ex, I have deleted the majority of him!

Mummy Me 1990a

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And here are three generations of mums, Mum, Nan & Me; and the little Princess makes 4 generations of women in that family. My grandmother lived to be 99. This photo was taken about 1992.

Four Generations0001a

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I hope all mothers have a wonderful day.

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great pics...thanks for sharing!

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Happy Mother's Day to you! Lovely family photos. I really like the one with four generations of women.

Thank you. I see that you are having a good mother's day! :-)

Thank you. I am really fond of that photo too - though only the older generations are actually looking at the camera! I would love to remember what was happening out of frame that has me laughing but the Princess looking really worried! My grandmother was a wonderful lady and I am so glad that all my children got to know her. My mother is pretty wonderful too!

I still have the Princess's little red hat - she used to look so adorable in it.

She does look adorable in that picture, and you look very Princess Dianesque!

Great photos :)
Happy Mother's Day!

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Happy Mother's Day!

I agree with Purplesque -- you look very Princess Dianesque! And your mother looked very Meryl Streepish in the black/white photo. Very attractive family you are.

As far as having the ex in the picture, I've had to deal with that a lot lately, and have found a most fun way to do so when there is no "cropping them out." (lol)

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those are great, Emjay. Can really see a resemblance between you and your mum.

Forgot about mothers day so I ended up cooking her a dinner instead of going to the woods to photograph, maybe tomorrow I will get a chance to go after I make some phone calls for parts for my tractor, its all been rebuild so it needs to be run to properly break in the motor!

I hope you had a happy day, plenty of phone calls on this day!

Wonderful post. Happy MD, one day late. :)

LOL! There is a guy at work who calls me "princess" because he thinks I look like Diana. I have a very healthy appetite though! :-)

Thank you - I had a lovely quiet day with books and my computer. Oh, and a glass of wine or two! Just perfect!

Thank you!! I basically did nothing for the whole day! Just perfect. I started a Barry Eisler book - the next in my John Rain assassin series - and surfed the web. Lucky the weather was so lousy or I would've felt guilty! :-)

Emjay replied to scorpion1116’s comment:
May 12, 2008
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Thank you. It was probably the "english rose" complexion (which I have mostly hated) and that hair style!!! What was I thinking?? :-)

LOL dealing with ex-es in photos!!! Not sure my Princess would like to be held by Homer though.....

Emjay replied to Emu with a Clue’s comment:
May 12, 2008
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It's the hair; it's the hair! - in those 2 middle photos LOL!! I hope to stay away from the grey perm for a long time though.

How wonderful for your mum to have you cook her dinner!! Yes, I did get phone calls and text messages but I had to get my own dinner! Hope you got all the parts you needed for the tractor.

Thank you! I hope you had a pleasant day also.

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