This pretty much sums up my parents. I’ve just stubbed my toe and am sitting on the ground crying at Nan’s. Dad is patting me while he tells me to be tough, it doesn’t hurt that much (HOW DO YOU KNOW? IT WASN’T YOUR TOE!) while Mum stands in the background, trying not to laugh at me.
And people wondered why I was weird.
I love the fact Mum took photos, I reckon if she hadn’t gone and died on us, Mum would have made a fine blogger. I am trying to work out what on earth it is that I am wearing heh. Thanks Veronica for publishing a photo of your mother wearing what looks to be a pair of your fathers long johns. bahahah
I love old photos from the 70’s? 80’s? … everyone looked so cool! A-M xx
Hehe, I’m not quite that old! This photo was taken in ’96!
Ha,ha,ha! I assume everyone is as old as me! A-M xx
Kim – I think they are jodhpurs…. well thats what they LOOK like.
Long Johns or leggings?
Love these old photos 🙂
leggings Jayne. *hangs head*
OMG really really hoping my daughter never ever blogs and talks about my crappy parenting moments. I have very cleverly in a hypermobile way darted out of view in any potential photo taken of me in the past ummm 27 years. No photos beyond the age of 20 makes me ever young right? Although the parenting skills I can do absolutely nothing about…..eek
Jokes aside, in my late teens/early twenties I had a lot of anger towards both of my parents, yet as I get older I realise that they were learning each day at being a parent, they made mistakes (some of them big ones which I wouldn’t go in to here) but a lot of the time they were dealing with their own stuff of which I knew nothing and learning as they went along. I am sure if they could rewrite history some would be changed. But only the really really bad bits.
I spent a LOT of time with my darling grandmother, especially as I was unwell a lot as a child/teenager and I would spend weeks with her at a time. It took me much by surprise that despite being the perfect grandmother, she was not a perfect mother, she told me this herself, though not until I was an adult. My mother too loyal to ever say.
My husband always shouts at my daughter when she falls down/up the stairs for example and lets face it with EDS this is a very frequent thing, ‘For God’s sake why can’t you be more careful’….. and despite me knowing this not to be true, daughter insists I deliberately threw orange juice ALL OVER HER favourite blue dress, when she was three when we were on a plane coming home from Portugal! She brings this up still randomly in unrelated minor arguments despite being nearly 22! No matter how much love there is in a family, differing perspectives on situations within them are fascinating.
Women in long johns Kim if reading this, look chic. They always look better on women than men!
In your parents defence, this was before your EDS issues became known, so a stubbed toe didn’t seem all that bad. Then again a stubbed toe is pretty painful at any age….
I couldn’t work out if that was your mum or your nan.
We all wore leggings back then, didn’t we? I have some nice ones of you too, V. I think they were from ’97 school camp? Hehe.
Gorgeous pic of Kim. Sorry ’bout your toe!
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