Tripping down memory lane.....

This is the reason why is it a bad idea to use the photo albums with the sticky pages, like were used in the "old days". Many of my photos have started to turn colors due to the acid in the pages and in the paper used for developing them. Take my advice and get your photos off those self-adhesive pages and into a scrapbook or pocket-style album. Preserve your memories! They are depending on you!

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Here is an action shot of Lisa, thinking she is going to get out of the sink during her bath at Mom's house. You can see the water swishing as she gets up, her hair still full of shampoo. She very closely resembles her son Manny, who is now four. No worries, someone was standing just out of camera shot to grab her....

Red is a good color for me but not for the entire photograph! This was taken in Williamsburg, VA when Lisa was about 18 months old. I am holding Lisa while Lori and my former spouse sit on the well. Lynn is the photographer.

Here is Lisa coming across the lawn at their home on the base in Norfolk. My favorite little picture of her, looking so cheerful and cute in her engineer bibs!

When my ancient grandmother, age 87 here, cradled Lisa in her arms, she made the yet-famous statement, "She looks like Aunt Martha Cornelius", which simply brought down the house! I do not know if any of us knew Aunt Martha, perhaps Mom did, but there was no way my sainted grandmother could have picked that out with her old eyes! Lisa is wearing the outfit she wore home from the hospital. These many years later, Gabriel, Lisa's firstborn, who will soon be six, wore the same outfit home from the hospital when he was born.

Lori is holding Lisa on her lap as I am sitting on the floor in the kitchen at my family's home. This may be the same day as Grandma Sickles famous comment. Now all babies look like Aunt Martha Cornelius!! Even the boys!