I've never seen a baby look sooo excited as you did in your first birthday picture. The grin and the way you were holding your arms and hands, it looks like you were going to explode with happiness. Hehe. Your mom was a very talented dress maker. Do you still have any of the dresses that your mom made for you when you were a child?
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I was a very happy baby and for the most part a very happy little girl growing up.
I also had something none of my cousins had...being born on the same day as my grandpa ! So it was like I had something special from the get go no one else in the family had sharing my day with my grandpa and I knew it. I was supposed to be born April 14 my father's birthday but I guess I was sleepy, and showed up on April 19 ! It made grandpa rejoice and my dad go hrmmm ! So that is why I always vowed within my own lil self that if ever I had a child I would plan the first born to be born for my father's birthday ! Well our twins were born april 13 and so a day early but my father was soo happy !
But yeh despite all the times my folks didnt have a lot of money, they had their ways to make me a very happy lil girl most of the time.
No I do not have any of the many dresses that my mom sewed up for me as a child even pre sewing machine she made me always look like some princess. Sometimes I just wanted a pair of jeans to go play football with my cousins all boys and got ...another dress ~! Har oh well. But oddly when momma passed away April before last, as I gazed at her in her final outfit ..she was very fussy about clothing and matching she had me pre arrange all her outfits for whenever per season even
for whenever she passed away. METICULOUS that one...I probably spelled that incorrectly but aye fussy about clothing it all must match and look fine per season ! As I looked at her during her funeral I could almost her hear say good job..in the outfit I selected for her *which she pre selected* and then I remembered every single dress over all those earlier years per fabric per pattern, per occassion that she had hand sewn me..aye my eyes flooded with tears but I still have all those dresses..as if firmly planted in my mind even down to their colors fabric everything. I remember nearly all of them so would be nice to actually have one as some soveneir but its all still firmly in my memory, many of the outfits and dresses I had forgotten that she had made till she did pass away then every single dress come flooding back to memory, still there too, so that counts too.
I think my mom's *fussiness* and goal that even if poor her baby girl would always be in something nice to wear ended up the *birthing* of the online character original Queen Zen chesapeake...who's story line is poor UO orphan queen no parents in sosaria left, born into the land of sosaria, living in delucia ta2 felucca, on chesapeake whom is always ..."properly attired" a royal with all warrior skills save for one tailoring skill, to always enable her to always look fashionably attired, even if dirt poor ! THX MOM
Our wedding bouquets almost look similar save for my having satin ribbon streamers on mine. Where u at with palm trees ???
Oh someone wanted me to post my lil gee I hit 22 yrs old post hippy era kinda after it anyhow .. that one pic of me again..so here ye go !!
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