OUR
FAMILY PICTURE GALLERY
By the time we had our first child, we
had been given a lot of family items (we had been married over nine years by
then). On one wall of our baby’s room, we created a pictorial family tree. In the center was a framed print of the birth
announcement and the picture of our daughter, taken at the hospital after she
was born (we changed the picture in that frame several times through the months
as we had new ones made). On one side of
these was my baby picture, and next to that was my parents’ picture, and
branching out from that were pictures of both set of my grandparents. On the other side of our baby’s picture were
my husband’s baby picture and his parents and grandparents. When our daughter was older, we would go over
and over the pictures with her, telling her who the people were.
Today,
those pictures, along with others, like my father’s large oval baby picture,
his father’s baby picture (in its original frame), my husband’s grandparents
and great-grandparents wedding pictures, line our hall. There is even a three-generation picture of
my father-in-law, my husband, and our children, and a four-generation picture
of my side of the family. Whenever the
kids have friends over, they like to show off our “family gallery”.
I
like being able to put a face with the name of those who have come before me.
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