Jakesprinters Sunday Theme this week is toys and the first thing I thought about was the excitement of Christmas past when our kids would get us up well before dawn to see what Santa had brought. Santa started coming Christmas Eve after I complained to him that I wasn’t getting enough sleep. Of course they didn’t have digital anything back then, so I had to go through my old snapshots. These pictures were taken in the early 70’s.
I also thought of this picture that was taken with one of those way-back picture taking machines. This is a Christmas picture of me playing with my toys taken in 1946.
As I was looking through my box of old pictures, the ones I enjoyed the most involved the kids finding their own “toys”. We provided toys for our kids, but because we didn’t have a lot of extra money they didn’t have an overabundance. They had a lot of fun, however, with Daddy’s clip-on tie and baseball cap, water, kitchen objects that were safe and in the bottom drawers, and of course all the big-people tools of everyday life. Take a peak.
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Pictures=memories. It always amazes me how a picture can take you back.
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Neat post. Even with all their fancy gizmos, my grandchildren seem more fascinated by ‘all the big-people tools of everyday life’ as you put it š
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Reminds me of when my kids were little, playing with the boxes the toys came in. š And when I was little, not having many store-bought toys and not even realizing I was deprived. Our imaginations provided us with great play inspiration!! š
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Thanks, LubbyGirl. This is exactly what I was trying to convey. We didn’t take any bikes or toys when we went camping and within a few minutes they were throwing stones at trees and dragging sticks in the dirt, bouncing on fallen trees.
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So cute!
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Thanks.
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Always nice to go back in time with our pictures. I’m sorting my mom’s loose pictures for her. I love going back in time through them.
Thanks for sharing bits of your past.
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Your children looks very happy in your images Pat, Thanks for sharing your idea I like it š
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Your very welcome, Jake. I had fun pulling them out and doing a little editing – they were really faded. Fun theme.
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