Like most young couples, Mom and Dad got busy right away increasing the size of their family. Here they are on their wedding day in 1954. Dad was so handsome in his Navy uniform and Mom was a beautiful bride. I think that is Rose and Bern in the picture with Dad and Mom. Bern was Dad's best friend back then and for many years until his death.This picture was taken in front of my grandparent's home in Ashland, Massachusetts. It was still a relatively new housing development at the time, consisting of small one and two bedroom Cape Cod houses, all clad in cedar shake. The development extended into a sort of valley where, once upon a time, cattle grazed. Beyond the valley was "the woods" where many hours were spent as soon as I was old enough to leave the yard. I will definately tell you more about those woods.
Here I am, just a few days old, with my mother, my great-grandfather and grandmother. I was born January 6, 1955. It looks like it was a very mild winter.I was born at the Naval hospital in Chelsea, Massachusetts. When I asked my father about the day I was born, he said he got a parking ticket. My mother didn't remember very much because as she said, "In those days, they knocked you out." She did say that she was not happy with the way the doctor handled my arrival. She said he handled me like a "piece of meat."
At four months old I became a pin up baby. Much to my embarassment, my father took this photo to France with him and had a sidewalk artist create a huge pastel painting. I now own said painting and it is well hidden in a deep dark closet. I wonder if parents ever think of their children as adults when they do things like that.
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Don't be so sad. You seem so sad.
I can relate to so much of what little you have said so far about your life - believe me. The part about the long marriage (for me nearly 24 years of heartache and stress) and "late" and hard fought battle for an education (I'll have to give you the link to the post about that later - although it's from not too far back in December or late Novemeber in my answer to my life's "proudest moment" if you want to take a peek.
I'm going to come back to check in on you, so I want you to cheer up and look at all the good that you must have in your life - like your three girls - even if they are still finding their own ways.
It will come. Don't give up. And, you made quite a cute "pinup" girl with just the right qualities to be posing so!
Drop by and check me out. I have quite a large "readership" most of the time, although it's been very quiet in blogger land this past week or so. And drop by one of my "other" blogs - Grace Notes (it's linked to the right in my blog) - and see what you think about my last post there called "An Uncommon Love Found in 'This Hallowed Ground'." I think you'll (probably - I hope) find some inspiration there at Grace Notes. That's the whole point, anyway.
Cheers!
Dee Andrews
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