General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and .... for Wednesday, August 30th, 1 by BabsERNurse

BabsERNurse wrote:
Howdy Folks,

I'm back from seeing Mum and having supper with DH. What a lovely evening we had. Mum was doing pretty well considering. She was giggling and swapping stories about being a newly wed with her roommate. It was really cute.

The roommate related being in a "writing relationship" for two years with her DH. They met during the war while he was in Chicago and he asked her if she would still be in Chicago in 2 years after he returned from the war. So they wrote to each other for two years and when he came back, they married. She said since it was 1946, there was no material available, (everything had gone into the war effort) or any ready made wedding dresses so her mother took a linen table cloth and some lace doilies and made her wedding dress for her out of it. She said she was also a bridesmaid 5 times over and used the same dress that she was married in for each of her 5 sisters weddings. Now, that's getting your $15.00 worth out of a dress, I'll tell ya! Ha!

I'm including a photo I found of my Mum and Dad on their wedding day. As you can see, Mum had her hair "fluffed up" and her heels on. Between the "big hair" and her heels she was a whopping 4' 10" next to my 5' 11" Da. My Auntie Nova made the dress from material her Mum had left over on a bolt in the back of her dressmakers shop. Mum was a domestic (she had been in an orphanage prior to being hired as a domestic) when my Da married her. She was working for a banker and his family. She cooked, cleaned and did the laundry as well as watched after their two children. Mum was never very big, but she weighed a whopping 98 lbs when Da married her. Can you imagine her giving birth to 3 babies all over 7 lbs each?!?

I just love hearing the old stories. I can't imagine how anyone could say they can't stand older people. I find them endlessly fascinating and I believe they are truly "The Greatest Generation".

Have a good evening everyone! Hugs to all, ~Babs~

*edited for typos

This message was edited Aug 30, 2006 8:42 PM