On Sister Janet's birthday I posted a picture of little Janet in what I believe was Grandma Fern's Farm house.
Cousin Denise, who as you know, bought and now lives in Mom and Dad's house, made a few comments and we spent a half hour or so, chatting back and forth about memories of the house, the little Red House, The Log Cabin, etc.
I'm amazed at Denise's memory of the Cabin and Grandma's house.
I forget that she is one of the first grandkids on the Wayne Vandercar side of the family...
which puts her in the time where she would remember more about things that the younger grandkids have only heard stories about.
I enjoyed our Facebook chat very much.
A week or so later, I was looking thru old Christmas pictures.
When Grandma Fern was still living in the Red House…her kids, Wayne, Bob and Gladys would trade off having Christmas…on Christmas Day. Eventually, as the families kept getting bigger, we outgrew everyone's living room and around 1983 or so, starting having the "Vandercar Christmas in July."
I found this picture from a Vandercar Christmas taken on Christmas Day.
mid 1973-4ish
That is Denise opening a gift in our Living Room.
I thought it was cool to see her as a child, celebrating Christmas in this Living Room and that she now celebrates Christmas in this Living Room as an adult.
Denise says she thinks of Grandma Fern and Mom very often and has a lot of memories and often senses them there…
....kinda cool that she might see flashbacks of her childhood too.
Directions to here:
Oh, and here's a flash back of Vanderkid childhood!
I was looking at a pic that Denise posted on Facebook....(sorry Al...caught you sleeping)
and I asked her…
"is that tile in the living room…and is it tan?"
The answer was yes!
They pulled up the carpet…revealing the tan tile of our childhoods!!
It finally happened.
