Easter 1977: The year before we blended flowers and plaid.
The year that at least one of us didn’t want his photo taken in suspender shorts.
Posts Tagged ‘Easter’
As Pictured Below: A case of the Easter blues
Posted in As Pictured Below, Family, Photographs, tagged As Pictured Below, brother, childhood, Easter, Easter clothes, family, Photographs on March 27, 2013| 1 Comment »
Dress your children in florals and plaid
Posted in Family, tagged brother, childhood, Easter, parents, postaday2011 on April 23, 2011| 2 Comments »
Ah, the Easters of yesteryear, when parents dressed and primped their children for church like prize hogs at the county fair.
I recall that this dress was not as itchy as other Easter dresses I was subjected to.
I still think that a plaid vest calls for a bow tie, whether you’re a toddler, a time lord or a literature professor.
Cocoa, defender of the Crows
Posted in Family, tagged candy, childhood, dogs, Easter, Easter candy, mother, postaday2011 on April 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »
This is Cocoa. Just looking at her, you wouldn’t guess that she scared the Easter bunny away one year.
My brother and I woke up early that Sunday morning, expecting to find full Easter baskets on the dining room table and undoubtedly making plans to skirt the no-candy-before-breakfast rule. Alas, there were no full baskets. There were no baskets at all.
I don’t remember if we woke Mom up or if she stumbled out of the bedroom around the same time, but I do know that she thought pretty quickly for somebody who had just woken up. She immediately shuffled us back into a bedroom, explaining that Cocoa had barked at the Easter bunny and he was afraid to come in, but was waiting outside.
Five minutes later, we were released to find our baskets filled with candy.
I don’t remember if I bought the story — at one point I started having doubts about such things but didn’t let on because, hey, free candy. I do remember that we weren’t mad at Cocoa; instead, we were a little proud.
Hell YEAH the Easter bunny was scared of our dog.
As Pictured Below: My brother, the original photobomber
Posted in As Pictured Below, tagged As Pictured Below, brother, childhood, Easter, photo scanning, postaday2011, Scancafe on April 8, 2011| 1 Comment »
Because once you get a little brother, you’ll never have your picture taken by yourself in your Easter finery again.
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