scrapbook pages: my mom

[jennickels]

I used to do a lot of digital scrapbooking.  It's yet another hobby I've basically given up on because I can't concentrate with all the chaos around me (writing seems to be going the same way).

These are some of the pages I made of my mom through the years.  In honor of her birthday which is November 27 (she would have been 63 this year).

My mom when she was about 4.  It's one of the very few childhood photos we have of her.
[ignore the dates in the corner...I was really tired when I made the page and wrote the actual date in 2006, not the day she died in 2000, lol...that's why you shouldn't scrap while tired.]

This was taken on a camping trip with my dad in the early 70s.  She would have been in her early 20s.



Another one from the early 20s.  Might have been on the same camping trip, I forget.



Me and my mom around 1978.  She was pregnant with my brother at the time.


This is one of my favorite photos of her.  We were at my Uncle Denny's house.  I was only like 3 so I don't actually remember it but I love looking at the photos.  She just loved to be out in nature and loved Denny's house on the lake.



Another favorite picture...my mom (on the right) and her two younger sisters, Carol and Susie at our family reunion in 1985.



Me and my mom (yep, that picture again).  We were at my Uncle Denny's house again and had just gotten down with a huge leaf fight.



This one was taken at my Aunt Nora's house after my cousins wedding shower I think it was.  All I know is that everyone was hung over (I didn't get to go because I was away at school).  She was always laughing and smiling.

I wish I had more pictures of her.  I kept meaning to scan them but never got around to it.  My dad has thousands at his house.

Comments

[nymaeria.livejournal.com]

Oh that's beautiful. And she has an amazing smile! What a lovely tribute to your mom. She seems like she was a pretty amazing person.

[ami-ven.livejournal.com]

Your scrapbooking pages are lovely. Her smile is really adorable- I wonder why she didn't like it as a kid? (My dad never liked his knees, because someone told him they were 'knobbly' when he was little.) Thankfully, she got over it, so you could have these great pictures of her *g*

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

Your mom and my dad have something in common, hatred of the way their teeth look.

My dad in his prime was movie-star handsome, except when it came to his teeth. They were white and even and strong, but bing born in 1936 and having grown up in the days when boys were almost never sent to the orthodontist (although many girls were if their parents had the money) no one ever corrected the way his two front teeth on the top crossed.

Other than that, they were truly fine teeth. He'll be 76 in June, and he has only two minor cavities which his dentist filled saying that it probably was not completely necessary, they were so small, but that he was going to go ahead "out of an excess of caution."

When my son, named for both of his grandfathers ended up with his two front permanent teeth crossed as they grew in, we sent him off to the orthodontist.

I think your mom's teeth (in their uncorrected form) were perfectly lovely, but then again, I have nothing whatsoever against "pointy teeth". The teeth that bother me are probably the kind your mom wished she had: broad, flat, white, even, straight teeth. They always just look fake to me.

Still, I'm glad your dad was able to get her the work that she needed to make her happier with her smile, because a smile like that should be shared often, and it's nice to think that it got easier for her to share it, even if she was never completely thrilled with how she looked.

After all, which one of us is? I don't know about you, but in family photographs, I always focus on all the others to avoid focussing on myself, and yet I've never been unattractive.