This photo is from Mother’s Day weekend in 1979. My mother was probably trying to get Josh (left) and Daniel to pose. They’re holding a tiny decorative globe (that I wish I had now) and acting silly, which probably annoyed her as she aimed the camera, but they couldn’t help themselves. When they were together, they egged each other on, running through the house, knocking stuff over–one time they pulled the upper section of a hutch down on top of themselves. Consequently, they were yelled at a lot. But rarely by me. They had the same effect on me that they had on each other, and my face usually hurt from laughing at their antics. They still have that effect on me.
Born sixteen months apart, they were–and are–great cousins. And though their mothers and grandmother might have scolded them now and then, we look back on those days as being some of the best times for our family.
When I see photos of the next generation of our family’s kids having crazy fun together, I hope their parents are reminded of these times from their own childhoods.
Bonus photo:
Daniel’s wearing his Close Encounters T-shirt and holding a toy shuttle–two years before the first shuttle launch–standing next to his banana seat bike. Definitely some cultural references there.
Memories are so great … and oh how I wish time could stand still.
It does only in photos–they help us almost to “bottle this moment” as we so often wish we could do.
Ah, the banana seat bikes…I can’t remember what we called the handlebars?
Growing up, the headboard of my bed was just like that one, except it was all white.
She was always rearranging furniture in that house, and for a time, that was the guest room with only one of the two twin beds. I often wonder how we all slept in that house after everyone got married and had kids; we were everywhere.
I think we called them monkey handlebars.
Where does the time go? When I posted a newspaper cutting of me and my family during the Queen’s Silver Jubilee celebrations it scared the bejesus out of me that they were 35 years ago!
I loved that clipping you posted. And I don’t understand how time races by as it does. EEK.