Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Grandma's house....

Growing up my Grandma had a house full of treasures. I remember the bathroom in "Phoebe's room" when it had its original green shag carpet and cabinets frozen in time full of toiletries! It was the best. Old perfume bottles, hair product, bobby pins, soaps...it was as if our mothers were in the other room teasing their hair and talking about boyfriends. My favorite! And it never got old. Each time was just as exciting. Maybe that's why I had to hold the tears back when they ripped the carpet out and cleaned out the cabinets...even at 24 years old!



Last Sunday was our first "Sunday Dinner" at Grandma's house. And Kate found herself a treasure of her own...
Grandma's Peniore set.
I used to sit and stare at this as a little girl. I loved it!





I love that Kate has a treasure at Grandma's house....
Then Joe was taking pictures because there was such great light and I realized these are the only pictures outside of the hospital of me and my baby...in fact I don't have any pictures of me and my newborns besides those beautiful just-given-birth hammered faced pictures.



Don't mind the dirty feet... these are all straight out of the camera.

Do mind Kate's "stink-eye" face. It's a regular around these parts!









10 comments:

April said...

Suzy... you are GORGEOUS!

Grandma lu said...

Love the pictures and the memories! My grandma house will never be what my mothers is, all those years in one house for her. I still feel that way when I walk up those stairs, I know there is treasure there even if they are only treasures of memories. And aren't they the most precious?

lori said...

Oh, I love this! Love your memories...love the pictures of grandma's new house (that we're dying to see!)...the love the pictures of beautiful you and your beautiful children!!

Cant' wait to see you guys next week!

Anonymous said...

Oh, I LOVED my grandma's house! She had beehive wigs in the closet and elbow length gloves and beaded handbags.

Sigh.

You look fabulous, BTW!

Rachel said...

baby grey is sooo big and such a doll! your hair is getting soo long and you look so good!

Jaime said...

Such cute pictures...LOVE all of them!

Phoebe said...

I love everyone of your pictures! I just ooh and ahh out loud to myself as I look at them. You are all BEAUTIFUL! and.. the memories of "upstairs" an absolute one of a kind place! my friends asked just the other day if we could all go up there again and just "pretend"! Love that place! Baby Grey is getting so big so fast! We've got to get down and see the house! (yours and gram Lu's)

Becky J. said...

Baby Grey is growing up so fast! He's darling and you look great, too!

Sara said...

Good work JOE! Those pictures were great!

Emily said...

Suzy, I don't see you often enough. First of all these pictures are so cute. Secondly, I have to tell you how happy I was when we saw you at the movie the other night and I discovered that you are a fan of NPR! I know I'm a dork but between that and BRAVO we have so much in common. Now I just need to see you more often!