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 !
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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.
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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.
The photos are lovely. I wish I had been taught to never depend on a man, I learned that for myself when I had to go back to work while still married to help pay for the house we were having built. We eventually divorced.
ReplyDeleteI don't like Mexican foods, there is something I dislike in the spices they use but I don't know what.
I still find it fun to learn more about you and your past.
ReplyDeleteLovely photographs. What a sweet three-year-old. It's wonderful what we can do now with old photographs. We were doing something similar yesterday.
ReplyDeleteDear Ingrid, your photos are lovely! That is a nice new hobby you have! I don't like Mexican food only because I can't eat anything too hot and spicy!
ReplyDeleteI like Chinese, Greek and French cuisine!
I love what you're doing with your photos. That one of you and Rick with your son could be your grandson, he looks so like his Dad. I think divorce is still hard now, even if women do feel more independent.
ReplyDeleteYou have made your precious pictures 'come alive' as it were. So amazing!
ReplyDeleteEarlier you spoke about the the languages you knew/learned. I too have a mixed bad at my disposal:
I was born in Canada, so English is my first language, but at the same time I also heard an awful lot of Dutch, because my parents had come from The Netherlands, and my mother also taught my sister and I how to read it, which of course then makes it easier to write...(letters to my non English speaking relatives). In school everyone also had to learn French, and later I took German as well. In college I took a semester of Italian. Most of the French and Italian has suffered from lack of use, but I imagine the 'tools' are still in there somewhere...
You and your husband made a beautiful pair. Love the toddler-age outfit; it is truly amazing how technology can now enhance old photos and bring those days back into full color focus!
ReplyDeleteWe like Mexican food, but nothing hot; mildly spicy is the order of the day, not dissimilar to how we like life, You photographs are a treat,; do share more as and when.
ReplyDeleteStrange how your grandma was more in tune than your mother, though I am told that a grandparents are often this way with the kids.
Have a lovely week
ERin