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My Mother and her Brother Robert c. 1925

Robert and Marian VanSickle. Durand Illinois c.1925. My mother sporting breeches and tie

January 13, 2021 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: ancestors, brother, Durand IL, family, fashion, mother, photography, postaday, Throwback Thursday, uncle 16 Comments

Fels-Naptha Bar-Yes or No?

Manufactured since 1894 the label proclaims. . Fels-Naptha Soap.

The ingredients that can cause cancer have been removed. Good to know

When I saw this Fels-Naptha in the store the other day, my mother came to mind. She’d run a wet bar on soiled shirt collars and cuffs, on hard to remove stains from laundry. Scrub the spot then put in the washer

It works to remove poison ivy oil, too.

Who buys it still? And uses it?

Feels-Naptha soap. Yes or No?

December 12, 2020 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Laundry, market postaday. photography, mother, poison ivy, soap, stain removal. Fels-Naptha 20 Comments

108 years ago today

Born in Durand, Illinois on September 3rd, 1912. It’s the anniversary of my mother’s birth. One hundred eight years ago. Next week marks twenty years since she passed. The early years, from my grandmother’s album.

September 2, 2020 by Ruth Categories: Throwback ThursdayTags: 1912, birthday, childhood, Durand Illinois, family, grandmother’s album, mother, photography, postaday, vintage 22 Comments

My Mother in a Field With Flowers

From my grandmother’s album My mother is on the right not sure who the woman is on left but my guess is it’s Mabel, their next door neighbor, who grew gladiolas

Durand, Ilinois

August 19, 2020 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: flowers, grandmother, grandmother’s album, mother, photography, postaday, vintage 17 Comments

Durand Illinois 1918 Throwback Thursday

My mother, Marian Van Sickle, pulls her brother Robert in the wagon. Durand Illinois. 1918.

From my grandmother’s album.

November 13, 2019November 14, 2019 by Ruth Categories: Childhood, Throwback ThursdayTags: 1918, childhood, Durand Illinois, family, family album, mother, photography, postaday, Throwback Thursday, van sickle 15 Comments

Happy Birthday Dear DIL

Happy Birthday dear DIL Erika. I’m glad I get to spend it with you this year.

You are a wonderful mother to four of my grandchildren.You remind me I’ve much for which to be grateful.

I love this photo of you.

Here you are in the apple orchard (2008) with Anna and Michael, Jack was home napping and you were carrying Maura, due to arrive the next month.

Anna is one

Michael resting on you

Here you are with Jack and your mother

Making Christmas happen when Maura was one month

August 2002

Taken by Anna

On Church Steps

Happy happy Birthday. ❤️Your MIL

October 3, 2019 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: anniversary, apple orchard, birthday, celebration, daughter, daughter in law, family, happy birthday, mother, photography, postaday 9 Comments

Throwback Thursday September 1916

**Marian Van Sickle** **Robert E. Van Sickle** **John R. Van Sickle**. My mother with the parasol and her brothers. Unfortunately, I don’t know who the twins are.

Durand, Illinois September 1, 1916

May 1, 2019May 1, 2019 by Ruth Categories: Childhood, From the ArchivesTags: 1916, antique, archives, childhood, Durand IL, Durand Illinois, family, family photo, film, memories, mother, Parasol, photo album, photography, Relatives, Throwback Thursday, uncles, van sickle, VanSickle, vintage 14 Comments

Wordless Wednesday

February 26, 2019February 26, 2019 by Ruth Categories: Wordless WednesdayTags: archives, baby hand, childhood, Hand, mother, photography, postaday 23 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.

Me as a young mother of 3 in 1983Me with the kids on way back to Germany in 1985 at Christmas after Aunt Bobbie’s wedding in Kansas City.

My mother as a grandmother holding Mark in 1977, Fort Knox, KY

Christmas 2017. Me with five of my grandchildren

Finding my place in the world of motherhood.

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/place/

May 12, 2018May 12, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: airedale terrier, baby, dog, family, grandchildren, greeting card, handmade card, home, love, mother, Mother's Day, photography, postaday, travel 29 Comments

Grateful

Grateful to be a daughter, sister, mother and grandmother, every day of the year.

May 13, 2017 by Ruth Categories: Family, Photo from My Archives, PhotographyTags: family, generations, grandmother, gratitude, mom, mother, Mother's Day, photography, postaday, sister 17 Comments

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