2022 Dec iTunes_Christmas 1952
maureenreynolds

2022 Dec iTunes_Christmas 1952

I was SO enchanted by Trace (tracermajig)'s layout, I made a similar one! what I neglected to say in all that journaling was that my Christmas dress (and most all my clothes) were made by my mother. (Yes, noticed the place and date shifted south somehow. 1952 Christmas Hyattsville MD)

I am no longer in Pennsylvania. We are now living in Maryland after my mother got a job with the Internal Revenue Service, a necessary change for her after a time at home, getting to be a mother post war . We are living in a small brick apartment building & off & on I share a bedroom with my 56 yo Nana. I used to worry she’d roll over in bed on me! Looking back I cannot imagine how Nana felt being shifted from one daughter to the other. As a widow she had little choice.

But it’s Christmas & most everything under the tree is for me. I have no idea how spoiled I am! Amazingly enough, there is yet another teddy bear from my father. I do have a special doll named Rosebud who is wearing a skating outfit that my mother knit for her. Rosebud got a whole wardrobe that year. It was my dress that was so special - I loved it! all taffeta which had such a fancy sound to me. The bottom half was a deep green and the top was multicolored stripes. Oh to have a color photo of that dress.! I didn’t wear it often as I had a school uniform & it was too noisy for church but I treasured it.

My final visible present was a pet, a parakeet that I named Mr. Pembroke. Why? I have no idea but I suspect it may have been from a book set in England. “The Secret Garden”? While money was a constant struggle, I recognize now what I never appreciated then. My mother adored me & would make any sacrifice for me & she did.

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