| Tuesdays Unwrapped |
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| Written by Cheryl |
| Tuesday, 05 May 2009 14:23 |
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Well here it is time for Tuesday Unwrapped, so AFTER you have read my little piece for the day be sure to stop over at Chatting at the Sky to read all the other presents for the day or better yet include yours.
It is raining again- still hard to tell the diff anymore, I just know we are under 30 days to the garden show and my backyard looks like and is a giant mudhole. To top it off DH and I are not getting along as well as usual so that sours my day. Having now whined ( hold the Cheese please) I will tell you that I was going thru some old photo's and came across this one and it brought back all kinds of memory's.
The cute little blonde is my sister who pestered me to death, then Mom and me- See that nice skinny little brown body, I have lost it and if someone could just find it for me I would be so grateful... Now the thing to note in this photo is those homemade matching outfits. I used to simply Hate Hate Hate the fact that Mom sewed our clothes, I mean there are a whole list of reasons I hated it. 1. I had to wear something that matched that little sister of mine. (mom always made sets) 2. The chances Mom could pin a in progress outfit to a whiney, moving child were nill, I still have pin pricks. 3. Homemade clothes screamed literally screamed at people look at me, we can't afford store bought so that put me in the odd duck pile. (ok, so I might have been there for other reasons too) 4. Wearing what used to be the curtains in the Kitchen or whatever other room they came from was the pits even if no one but family knew. But looking at the picture today as a mom of my own grown up children, I see a Mom who sewed every one of those outfits with lots of love. We did not have a lot of extra money so she would find big sale pieces of fabric and make our clothes and the set I grew out of sis got to wear again. so she might, might have had it worse than me. My mother can and has sewn anything and everything- from men's suits to sleeping bags, upholstered furniture, made mattresses, and during nam worked in a factory making parachutes. You name it she can make it. I have seen her take a newspaper and cut a pattern and whip something up more times than not. Patterns to her are just guidelines anyway. At home she always always has had one sewing machine for what I know is over 50 years. A Singer of course in Black- the only color they came in then and it goes forward and it goes backward, that's it. No fancy schmancy stitches. She has tried my newer yet still basic model and keeps going back to hers. She learned on a treadmill machine that you had to pump your feet so it would work so I guess her electric one was quite a step up. She always made sure we were dressed in nice clean clothes, and yes they were homemade but it was with love and always in style. She worked full time, cleaned the house, cooked all the meals because restaurants were much more scarce and we did not have the money anyway for lots of extra's. Made all of our clothes, raised us and did all the things mom's do with little to no appreciation. I look back now with pride of what mom did for us. My Prom dress was even homemade but I had the highest slit skirt of anyone there and the darn thing fit me to a t. So for Mother's Day this is for you mom- THANK YOU - I Love You......
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What a wonderful post! Thank you for sharing today!