Flashback Friday

I thought I’d try something new today since I don’t have a lot of time to post (and, if I’m being honest, no idea what to write about today if I did have more time.)

So, welcome to Flashback Friday! I thought it would be fun to post pictures from my past on this blog. They might be of me, my family, or my friends. You never know who will show up on Flashback Friday.

And to all my friends in real life? Yes, you should be afraid.

To kick off Flashback Friday I thought I’d post a couple pictures of me as an infant and since I’m a twin every picture will include Trish. Huh. Maybe that’s why I’ve turned into such an attention whore. I’m making up for forty-two years of having to share a birthday, the limelight, whatever. Just kidding Trish. Sorta.

This is a picture of my mom and dad holding me and Trish. I have no idea which baby is me. The reason I chose this picture is not so you can see what I looked like as a baby but rather so you could see my mom’s hairdo.

When Matthew was a baby I remember not getting my teeth brushed until 2:00 PM so how in God’s name did she have time to do that? With little baby twins!

Here she is again, just lounging around in her elaborately constructed beehive.
Granted, this was 1967 so that updo probably went “up” on Monday and came “down to be washed” seven days later, but still. Actually there is only one of us in this picture (let’s say it’s me.) Trish must be rolling around on the floor somewhere next to an un-childproofed electrical outlet and a lead-painted toy.

My mom also left the hospital weighing a few pounds less than she did when she got pregnant.

I gotta give her credit where credit is due because she could just as easily have put her unwashed hair up in a butterfly clip for six months while she struggled to lose fifty post-partum pounds.

Not that I’d know anything about that.