Celebrating holidays sure does change as you get older. I don’t really do much for Easter these days. I am going to cook a small Cornish game hen, but I remember how we used to always have someone over for dinner. I’d bake pies from scratch and wear a dress, pantyhose, and apron. Then we’d play cards or a board game. Now, it’s too much trouble to prepare anything special in the kitchen, and I can’t remember the last time I actually had folks over for a meal. My cooking skills disappeared about the same time I realized I couldn’t get down on the floor and get up again.

I have very few Easter pictures of my kids but here’s how I dressed my two oldest daughters in the 1970s. You had to have a pretty dress, a Sunday school hat, and matching purse. Wish I had a better camera back then. Interesting to see the stuff in the background. I don’t have one single thing in that picture now. Except for my daughters, of course, and the younger one in this photo is almost 50. I think that’s an old headboard behind the cheap white couch that I used for knickknacks. That couch was so flimsy, a child could pick up one end easily.  But it suited our budget and I thought it was quite stylish at the time.  Of course everyone wanted to display their large photos taken at Sears or Penney’s of our too-cute-for-words children. One of my craft projects that came in the mail each month sits there like a work of art, and I wonder whatever happened to that pretty blue dish that held artificial grapes. I see John’s wood carvings, and who could miss that huge ole clock! Ahhh.…those were the days!  I sure enjoy old photographs.