Note: This is the last chronological entry in the Musings from Mary, although I'll be featuring one more in a month or two, from May 1975. This will just give you a sense of my future/past developmental milestone and hairdos!
L: Age unknown aka Mullet hair ~ R: Age unknown aka Farrah Flyaways
Age Unknown - Barrettes and Bangs
Nearly two years since I last wrote:
Calmer – not many no’s
Outside little in Summer '75
Fall ’75 started dancing. Primary
Nail biting, picking [AN: STILL picking the cuticles!]
Neighborhood nursery – Jan. 1976 – May '76
Summer School 1976. Hair cut June '76
Pre-school
Still loves books
Our conflicts and clashes: Naps downstairs Summer '76
Rides with daddy on motorcycle
Colors, shapes, books, coloring, crafts, days of week
Helpful still. Stubborn which causes clashes
Needs more physical love and time. Slow to get attention [AN: STILL!]
AN Notes: I was five by this point. Jed would have been two and change. She would have been running around after us. Being Molly Mormon. Helping Dad with papers. Doing Weight Watchers, both participating and teaching. She didn’t have time to type up Dr. Spock notes any more. Plus in another year or so … J would be in development and/or making an appearance, and by 1980, we were moving! That’s a LOT! In a pre-cable tv, pre-word processor, pre-microwave, pre-Internet 1970s oil embargo- world when Dad was schooling and working and we live far away from all but the great-aunts. Was it a better time? Possibly? Were there different stresses and distractions? Surely. (Actually, that was Aunt Shirley – and she helped a lot!)
Thanks for all of these Mom. It's been oddly educational to be reading about my infantile/young self in these musings now that I'm supposedly all "mature" and "middle-aged!"
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