In the Park | MOC Day 26 Heritage
- Description
- Little Butterfly Wings - As Time Goes By
Background: Pink Reptile Designs - Fancy Whites
Wood hearts: Little Butterfly Wings - Say What
Cardboard numbers: Just Jaimee - Year in Review
Confetti: Just Jaimee - Grandpa Mini Kit
Glitter paint & glitter stars: Lynne-Marie & Quirky Heart - Mixed Media Monthly November 2014
Burst: Hoppy Birthday Collab
Mommyish - Chipboard Styles
Label Templates: Violet Irisovna - Pocket Basics 2
Template: Valerie Wibbens - September Template Challenge Freebie
Journaling:
I love this photo, the only one I have of my paternal grandparents together. In it, they’re just a couple of teens, goofing around in a park.
The image is made all the more poignant knowing my grandfather only lived for a few more years after this photo was taken. Ted died of a tooth infection before his son (my father) was two years old. Penicillin had been discovered in 1928 but did not become commercially available until the early 1940s, a very short time after he died. I can't imagine what that time was like for my grandmother, seeing her beloved husband die just a few years after they married, left on her own as a young woman with an infant child. She remarried (a dentist, ironically) and her new husband adopted my father. The relationship between stepfather and stepson was strained, and I think a lot of my father's depression and dark night of the soul stems from losing his father so young and being raised by such a strict and stern man.
I sometimes look at this photo and wonder who he might have been if he'd been able to be raised by those two goofballs in the park.
