Thanks to all of you who are playing my Caption Giveaway Game. You came up with some good ones last time. The hay bale had some of you thinking about that lost needle in a haystack. Kathy even mentioned finding gold. Since my grandson looks so happy, others of you had him feeling victorious and being king of the hay/straw/mountain/world. I liked Suzanne who said he might like being up high so much that next he would be trying mountain climbing. With that kid, it’s possible. Ed came up with a Rocky victorious quote about gonna fly. I have to admit to never watching the Rocky movies but I have heard others talk about 
them. He does, for sure, have a victorious look. But my favorite caption had to be Connie’s when she had him thinking “It’s a great day to visit Grandma.” I always thought it was a great day when he came to visit. Loved spending time with my grandchildren when they were little and still do even though they are growing up fast. This kid is not far from graduating college now.
On to picture #3. My mother, if she had lived, would be celebrating her 100th birthday tomorrow. She always said she wanted to live to be 100, but she didn’t quite make it. She did make it to 94, but the last few years were rough for her when her enjoyment of life was stolen by dementia. The picture for your caption suggestions is of her and her sisters. I’m guessing Mom, the one on the left, was around 60 when this picture was taken. That’s a guess and it could be a year or two off. I do know it was before the sister next to her and the youngest of the four was diagnosed with a rare cancer that took her first of the sisters. My mom lived the longest and oh, how she missed her sisters. Especially during those last years when she floated in time and was often a young girl in her thoughts instead of a ninety plus year old woman.
This has always been a favorite picture of mine because it was so like them when they got together. They were always laughing and telling stories about when they were girls growing up during the Depression years. They all married, stay married through thick and thin, and were all widowed. They were great mothers to their children.
Those stories they told about the people in their little community of Alton became the background for my Rosey Corner in Angel Sister. It was a sorrow for me that my mom and the one aunt still living when I originally wrote the novel weren’t able to enjoy the book. My aunt had a stroke and died suddenly before the book was published and while mother was still alive when the book came out, she was no longer able to enjoy reading because of the dementia.
But tomorrow I can celebrate for Mom and wish she had been one of those blessed people who make it to one hundred years old still able to enjoy living. I can remember all the many good years I had with her. She was always there for me and for my sisters. Our best friend. Our biggest supporter. She loved us without measure and loved our children the same. She was a wonderful granny to them. So Happy birthday in heaven to my mom. It could be she and her sisters are still laughing over those stories they loved to tell about being kids growing up during the Great Depression.
If you leave a comment on the post, you’ll get an entry in my giveaway. If you’ve left comments on the other pictures I posted last week, you get a new entry for your comment on his new picture. If you can’t think of a caption, any comment will get you an entry. Deadline to enter is midnight EST March 24, 2020. I’ll announce the winners on the 25th. You must be at least 18 years old to enter. No purchase or any requirement other than the comment is needed to be in the drawing. Two winners, picked by a random drawing, will get their choice of one of my books and a grab bag book.
So what caption would you give this picture of Mom and her sisters?
As always thanks for reading.
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Janice, being sisters I’m sure they had some “I told you so” moments.
Donna, I don’t know anything about bunco, but these ladies loved playing cards and Scrabble. They played Rook or Canasta.
Marji, I’m guessing they would have thought it was hilarious to lock a certain cousin in the outhouse.
Kathy, your caption made me smile but I’m not sure who they might have hoped they had locked in the pantry. Mom really liked Hank Williams Jr. but that was after she was married. Not sure who they might have thought was a heart throb in their young days.
Donna, fun that you mentioned pie. I had a pie be part of every story in my Rosey Corner books. So much so, that my editor asked me to include a recipe for brown sugar pie in the author notes in Love Comes Home.
Lynda, they did a lot of remember whens. And good thing for me they did because I loved hearing their stories and later those stories made for a great setting for my Rosey Corner books.
Connie, that would have had them laughing for sure. Mom used to talk about how they had a taffy pulling once and how the boys got the candy stuck every where. There’s a talent to pulling taffy. And taffy could give poor old Cousin Earl’s teeth trouble.
Maria, you think they might have missed getting that tail in the right place.
Lucy, I don’t know if they ever went skinny dipping. If so, that was a story they never told me, but I wouldn’t have been too surprised if a couple of them. might not have given it a try. Don’t think Mom’s older sister would have tried it though. 🙂
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You all are making me smile with all these great captions. I wondered if this would be a good picture to use and you’re showing me that indeed it is one to bring out the great captions.
Emily, for sure, they were always saying Do you remember when… Great caption.
Jolene, yours is neat too. I’m sure they often talked about what “he said.” 🙂
Paula, that did you see what she did is spot on too.
Suzanne, you had me seeing Mom or a sister walking do the church aisle with a skirt tucked where it shouldn’t be tucked. They did for sure wear slips that have seemed to have gone out of style now. But at one time it was scandalous to show the shape of your legs under a skirt. How times change. Mom did talk about how they had to share the one good pair of hose during the hard depression years. That was the pair without the runs.
Karen, I’m sure some of their stories were a little hard to believe.
Linda, they did love to laugh together so they might have pulled jokes on one another.
Lisa , I took the picture and I did capture a beautiful memory for certain.
Wait…wait….I can top that one. Remember when we all went skinny dipping.
Happy heavenly birthday to your sweet mom !
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Thank you, Evelyn. I saw your sister at the grocery store today and asked about you. She said they always called you Eveline. That’s neat. She also was telling me her memories of Mom and Dad and my granddad too. It was such a gift to hear her saying sweet things about Mom on this day that would have been Mom’s hundredth birthday. Made the trip to the grocery in all that craziness of everybody panic buying worth it. Tell her thank you for me. It was sort of neat hearing somebody talk about knowing me when I was a little kid too young to remember her.
“Ohhh, look where the donkey’s tail is! It’s in the eye!!”
Oh no! Cousin Earl’s teeth just fell out!
Huddle of heavenly sisters!
Caption: Remember when we……………?
‘He’s the one that did it! He ate the whole pie and then said he hadn’t seen it!’
Oh for lands sakes Its Lawrence Welk -Danny Thomas !
Hiding in my Pantry.. Ahhaahaahaa…
How on earth did you get here?
Do you see them girls??
‘You were the one who locked cousin Suzy in the outhouse!’
Whatever was said, looks like those four beautiful sisters were having a fun time!
You say you got five buncos, I win I got six.
HaHa, I told you so!
I can’t think of a caption but what a beautiful moment in time that someone caught .Happy Heavenly birthday to you mom , Ann. I hope today is filled with precious memories of her for you.
‘Got Cha’
Really a sweet group. My 92 year-old mom and her little sister (83) enjoy retelling old times and I enjoy hearing them!
“Can you believe it?!!!”
Happy 100th in Heaven to Ann’s Mom. 😊🎂🎈🎁😊
“No, I can’t believe you walked up the church aisle with your skirt tucked into your half slip and didn’t even know it!!! I wonder if anyone else noticed.”
“Did you see what she did??? “
“And then he said… “
” Do you remember when?…” 💜Psalm 15💜