We got some pictures back from the photographer today. Here’s the almost-3-y.o. and here’s the one year old. Personally, I think they’re pretty cute.
Number one daughter has locked her father out of the house and pulled him down to the floor out of his chair tonight. She’s on a roll!
I was going through some old boxes and found my mother’s poll tax receipts from 1958-1966. The poll tax was outlawed in 1966.
I also found:
– a picture painted by my great-great-great aunt in 1938 for my mother
– a whole bunch of my riflery and archery targets and patches and medals from camp
– a newspaper article about a relative who went to jail
– a letter from my big brother to me when I went to camp (I’m still waiting for that Astroworld trip I was promised…)
– a bunch of dim pictures of unidentifiable landscape (pitched)
– letters from my grandfather to his parents while he was a cadet at West Point
– my mother’s confirmation certificate
– all my report cards and standardized test results
I started this project to toss out trash, but it’s taking me hours to go through the boxes. All the letters written to and from camp for the 7 years I went there, for example – fascinating. I got 2 letters in 1981, one from my great-aunt and one from my mom, about how fascinating the royal wedding was between Charles and Diana. My mom recorded it for me. On betamax. I still have it somewhere.