baby – Page 2 – Ruth E. Hendricks

Almost Twelve Years Ago

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Throwback Thursday. One of my favorite family photographs. Mark reading while Erika’s holding baby Jack and Anna and Michael. Before Maura was born. We were on a road trip in May 2007, staying at our friend Joanne’s home in Omaha, Nebraska. 782 miles from Columbus to Omaha in the minivan, that’s one way. I sat in the back with the kids and was the Granny Nanny while Mark (and sometimes Erika) attended meetings at a convention. The word of the week this would illustrate might be Exhaustion. Oh, that’s right, they don’t have the word of the week anymore. 🙁

February 20, 2019February 20, 2019 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: baby, family, friend, minivan, Omaha Nebraska, photography, postaday, road trip, Throwback Thursday, travel 14 Comments

Childhood Friends as Mothers

Childhood friends as mothers.

The girls, born in Germany in 1983 and 1984, were friends as babies and toddlers and young girls

1986 Kentucky

Laura at bottom. Anna at top.

Here they are as Mothers,

in 2018 with their own children

Anna with Elio. Laura with Charlie

July 9, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: baby, childhood, childhood friends, children, family, friends, friendship, Germany, Kentucky, motherhood, mothers, photography, postaday 21 Comments

Our Parents

My Father’s Day post.

Here’s a photo of our parents, Roy and Marian Hendricks. Dad is holding my sister.

My parents didn’t own a camera so a family friend must have taken this picture.

This lovely photo is in one of those awful sticky photo albums. Ugh. There must be a way to remove the photo without damaging it. Any clue?

June 16, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: 1942, baby, black and white photography, family, Father's Day, parents, photo album, photography, postaday, vintage 8 Comments

May 26, 1976

May 26, 1976.

Here I am, new mom, holding firstborn Mark.

Here’s Mark in 2003 with firstborn Anna.

Remembering my bicentennial baby on his birthday, with love,

May 26, 2018May 26, 2018 by Ruth Categories: Family, PhotographyTags: 1976, baby, Bicentennial, birth, birthday, celebration, child, childhood, firstborn, happy birthday, motherhood, parent, postaday 21 Comments

Mother’s Day Greetings

In the ongoing effort of cleaning up the third floor earlier this week, I found a stash of postcards and greeting cards, some handmade by my kids, written or scribbled upon and saved. Saved by me cause I couldn’t bear to pitch them. Even a dot matrix computer printer card, made by the kids for me. A folded page of Murphy the Airedale’s inky footprints before any of the grandkids arrived and then I found a card with the addition of “baby” when Anna was expected.

Numerous photographs, too.

Happy Mother’s Day greetings, a partial collection.