HODGEPODGE MAY 7

 

1. What's something you may do this month?

Definitely my new hobby! I have discovered how to completely remake very old photographs. The pictures are from the 70s, and the photo of me as a 3-year-old girl, is  from 1946, all in black and white. It took me a long time at first, but then it went quickly, and here they are.

What I don't understand that even the colors of our clothes are right !  

 

Rick and I 1968 

 

me at three 

New Year 1976

 A birthday, my son and I 

2. Hola! Hodgepodge Day lands just after Cinco de Mayo... how do you feel about Mexican food? What's your favorite dish? Do you make it at home or is it a strictly dine out option? 

I like Mexican food and we have 2 or 3 restaurants here in our little Waterloo. Besides Chili con carne, I have never cooked Mexican food. 

 

3. When the children of today grow up what do you think they'll say about this time period? What do you most hope they remember? 

Probably the same thing my parents told me about their childhood and youth, except that they experienced the Second World War, and those were truly not pleasant memories. I hope he remembers a happy childhood and a crazy, cheerful mother and a loving father who always played with him and his friends.

4. What advice would you give a new mother? 

None at all, I still remember the ones I got and that was enough for me to never give an advice unless I am asked. 

5. What's a phrase your mother often said to you? If you're a mom do you say it to your own children?

I don't remember her saying anything specific to me, and if she did, It no longer fits into today's times. 

I remember more what my grandma told me although she was born in 1894(!) she was more modern then her daughter, my mother.   

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Nr. 5 made me think of my grandma. I spent most of my childhood with her. From 0 to 6 years. My parents visited me from time to time. And I am very thankful for that. Without her I would have been a completely other woman. I always remember when she told me to never depend on a man, because if I had enough I could leave him and not stay because of money. I see it here in my castle, the few couples we have and are forced to share one (although big room) hate each other ! There is only one couple who are still kind and friendly to each other. The two other couples would have divorced long ago, but as women didn't work they had to stay married. My grandma was one of the first women who worked, and only stopped when my aunt was born. I was married 54 years, and would have stayed longer, but unfortunately, he passed away before me.