Remembering

Since we aren't going out anywhere, because of the cold, I have a lot of time on my hands.  This means much time spent in the studio, which results in me talking about little other than that, as I don't expect you want to hear about the dishes I washed this morning.  (or didn't wash, as the case may be)  With getting my hexie quilt basted yesterday, I took on a much older quilt top--actually labeled  McGrath family reunion, 2000.  My hands gave out before I finished pin basting it, but I spent time looking at the pictures, and remembering--or trying to--problem with getting older. Many things have changed over the years.  Grandpa Doug has died, Loren and Pat's marriage has ended, and other relationships have changed.  I think I've probably procrastinated over finishing this because I wasn't sure how to deal with that sort of thing.  But then it is supposed to represent a specific point in time.  So these pictures tell a story of our family.  Everyone, even the children (only scribbles, but someone labeled them) signed a plain block, all of which were incorporated into the quilt.

  Here's what it looks like.  Why I chose pink, I'll never know.

Here are Cathy and Keri-Rrain--at least that's how she signed it.  Sorry for the pin through your belly, Cathy.

Here's Beth with Jeremy and Gillian.  Were they ever really that small?

This is the three of us with Jeremy

Loren and Pat, with their children, Jeremy and Gillian.  He's getting quite bald now.  I'm glad he could grow hair at one time.

I'm also glad that Amber never had any trouble growing hair.  I remember her friend Amanda once saying that you could always tell Amber in a picture, because she was the one with "big hair".  I have to say that I look a little "out of it"

This is precious to me.  Mike, just a teenager ( How old was he here, Beth?) but already head and shoulders above anyone else.  This is the only picture, that day, of either Mike or Grandpa Doug.

 And how could we have pictures without one of the three of us and our wine glasses?