I loved Easter and getting all new clothes, hat, shoes and gloves! Until I was ten, my great-grandfather took me shopping to a children's dress shop for my dress-he loved to buy dresses and little hats and purses for me. All girls had to have gloves for church---my favorite dress was when I was about nine and it was ruffled and frilly and pink and white-white socks and white Mary Jane's. My Dad's family had a little farm and we would go hunt in the hayloft for Easter eggs after church on Easter! Then we all had the big ham dinner and wonderful desserts. They had a cow and we always had fresh whipped cream on desserts! I was lucky , I had all four great-grandfathers for a while-so knew them all! I was the first grand and great-grandchild all around-so I was well loved and very spoiled! Helen

I remember making the girls Easter dresses. Would buy new shoes and socks, but made there dresses. Usually fancy with the big underskirt underneath sticking out ten feet, seemed like it when they all got in the car. Usually bought the boys clothes. I never could do a good shirt collar on a boys shirt. I can but always had a time with it. But loved making the girls dresses. All with lace usually trimming and it was always fun to make. My son in law when they had there little girl, didn't like home made clothes. He always thought that home made made him think of being poor. I would have loved to make her little dresses, although in the end she was a tom boy. Always picking up bugs, when she was barley walking I had her in the yard and she was picking up the little rolly polly bugs and wanted to save them for mom and dad. A picture I have of her, that I just love is her in the field with lots of wild flowers and picking the indian paint brush. She turned out to be a school teacher. Now pg. with her baby ready to pop any time. I just heard part of it on the radio the other day where some one was saying that school teacher make 100,000 a year. Well I don't know where that is, maybe big time college professors, but she sure never made that much. Even teaching in a poor school, with alot of migrant workers and come and go kids. The teachers made more there than some places. she enjoyed the teaching but felt so sorry for the ones you knew were not going to get any help at home, or if they were sleeping in the cars. Parent were, or some times just the mothers and were on drugs. So hard to help those kids. Well kind of got off that subject, guess better get something done. Supposed to have snow or rain tomorrow. Louise in sunny Ca. ----- Original Message ----- From: "helenware" <helenware@comcast.net> To: <memory-lane@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 9:49 PM Subject: Re: [ML] Easter Dresses & my first death experience >I loved Easter and getting all new clothes, hat, shoes and gloves! > Until I was ten, my great-grandfather took me shopping to a children's > dress > shop for my dress-he loved to buy dresses and little hats and purses for > me. > All girls had to have gloves for church---my favorite dress was when I was > about nine and it was ruffled and frilly and pink and white-white socks > and > white Mary Jane's. > My Dad's family had a little farm and we would go hunt in the hayloft for > Easter eggs after church on Easter! > Then we all had the big ham dinner and wonderful desserts. They had a cow > and we always had fresh whipped cream on desserts! > I was lucky , I had all four great-grandfathers for a while-so knew them > all! I was the first grand and great-grandchild all around-so I was well > loved and very spoiled! > Helen > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message