July 2017 Scrapbook Pages

Trying to finish up Mason's 2011 pages.  Slow going!

Mason's 2017 Baseball season (his team card will go on the blank card space after printing)

New Hampshire vacation for Mark, Janelle, Mason, Miriam, Stacia, Amy, and Bill.

Lancaster and Delaware for my Aunt Esther's funeral.

Throwback Thursday - My Cousin Lynda and her Kitchen Set

This is my cousin Lynda Lundstrom Brouillette.  It was Christmas 1957.  She was almost 4 years old.

These pictures are from my aunt Dot's slides.  Every time we used to look at them in later years my cousin would say, look at my hair!!  Bobby pins made quite a curl, or maybe that was a perm!

We spent Christmas day that year at my aunt Ettie and Uncle Bob's house in Norwich, CT where he was a pastor of the Norwich Assembly of God church.

Lynda got that kitchen set for Christmas.  I remember being so jealous that she had that kitchen set.  It was made of cardboard and I thought it was the best thing ever!!  She also got kitchen accessories, dishes, food, pans!  Wow!

My cousin Lynda has been having a hard time for the past year.  Her mom has been in an assisted living center/nursing home and is now in Florida near Lynda's brother Donald.  This has been very hard on Lynda.  I'm hoping things get better for her.

****Update - The same day as this post, later in the afternoon, I got a call from my cousin Lynda telling me that her mom, my Aunt Ettie passed away.  The funeral is next Wednesday in Delaware.  So sad, but I know that she is in a better place, by far.

New York World's Fair, and why it's important to take pictures!

Tonight I watched a TV Special on the 1964-1965 World's Fair.  I thought, wow, I'm going to see a lot of things that I remember.

I couldn't believe it.  I didn't remember much of anything!

My aunt Ettie lived in Ossining, NY at the time, not far from the fair.  We stayed at her house for the weekend and went to the fair at least two times.

These are the things I remember about the fair.

- One of the times that we went we brought one of Dot's friends, Stevie Gorski.  I remember Dot being a little upset with her; I don't remember about what.  I think maybe Stevie didn't want to do too much, but I'm really not sure.

- I also remember getting lost going back to Ettie's house and Dot stopping to call her (how much easier it would have been if we had GPS and cell phones back then!).

- I remember standing next to the fountains with my cousin Lynda because of this picture:

This was the ONLY picture that I have of the World's Fair.  Now mind you, my aunt Dot took a lot of pictures.  Not like nowadays with digital cameras and phones, but a lot of pictures for her day, and this is the only picture she took of the fair?  It seems incredible.  In her later years Dot culled a lot of her slides.  Maybe she got rid of some pictures of the fair, but I don't remember seeing any others.

This is why I think it is so important to take pictures; it is a big way that we remember things.

I have a slideshow going on my 27 inch iMac all the time in my family room.  So many times the kids and grandkids go to the computer to look at a certain picture; when and where it was taken and we are able to recall that memory (never mind the grandkids scrapbooks, yearly Project Life, and my blog).  I try to document all of the things that I wish I could remember about my life back when I was a child.

There are two other things that I remember about the fair.  They are the Carousel of Progress and Small World.  These were made by Disney and are now at Disney World.  When we went there the first time in 1980 I remembered seeing them at the Fair.

I know that if my aunt Dot had taken more pictures at the World's Fair I would remember more.