Not Ever Quite Put Together

January 30, 2009 / 2 Comments

Clothespindrop

This is the second grade version of me, competing in the clothespin drop contest at playday.  The object of this contest was to stand on the chair and drop clothespins into a jar that you can barely see in the bottom of the picture.  

When Sarah saw this picture, she observed, "Mom your hair is REALLY weird."  Uhm.  Yeah.  

Mom, what in the world were you thinking when you cut my hair and permed like this?????

Some other noteworthy details:  I'm wearing my once pink velcro shoes that I never did keep clean.  One of my socks is up.  The other is down.  I never did care much for appearances, even then.  Wherever I went, I was always considerably disheveled, much to my mother's chagrin.
In the background you can see the cardboard cubbies in my classroom, which housed all the take home papers for the first and second graders, along with our gym shoes that stayed in school during the winter, any special trinkets we brought to school to play with at recess time, library books, etc.  
Eyesclosedant

Here's another example of my fashion sense.  I went everywhere with my pockets slightly untucked.  This also gave my mother fits.  She'd tell me to tuck them in and I'd roll my eyes and stomp off.  

In this photograph I'm dressed up in my ant headgear for a music play at our fall concert in the third grade.  I'm standing next to my friend Bridgette, who spelled her name Bridget at the time.  I don't remember a lot of details about this play, except that it was very funny to all of the students in it, and that my mother and Bridget/Bridgette's mother spent a LOT of time after school making costumes in the music room.  

Antgroup

Here's one last photograph of the entire elementary school, grades 1-6 dressed up in their costumes for the play.  The fifth and sixth graders each had a speaking part and were dressed up like different animals.  Bridget/Bridgette's brother, Trevor, was a grasshopper who was always sad and playing a violin, and I remember him doing a really good job, and being really funny.  Grades 1-4 were all ants.  I think we were an ant army, maybe.  

2 Comments

  • Robin Rewald

    January 31, 2009 at 7:25 pm

    Oh my, It truely was a bad hair style. But at the time I remember thinking how cuse you were, don’t hold it against me and remember, you too have girls and the styles will surely change from now to when they grow up. If it makes you happier, I too had a very bad doo at that time. Funny how I was just looking at some of those old pictures today too. MOM

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