I'm pretty sure this picture below was taken when Mom and Dad took me to Six Flags Over Texas one summer. I just love Mom's hair...the beehive "do" was in! I can still remember going with her to the beauty shop on the weekends and watching her get her hair rolled, then having to sit under a dryer. Her hair stylist would take the rollers out and tease her hair until it got as high as it possibly could go. Then, she'd spray it with a ton of hairspray, which made her hair feel like it was covered in liquid cement! A windstorm could have blown into town and it would not have moved! Oh, I can feel Mom looking down from Heaven right now saying, "I can't believe you shared that picture of me for the whole world to see!" Thankfully, she had a great sense of humor...she'll always be beautiful in my eyes!
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Here I am with one of my best buddies, Teresa (she's on the right). She lived right down the road from me in Hot Springs, Arkansas and we'd play together all the time. I'll never forget one particular day when she asked me when my birthday was and I told her it was May 14th. It's NOT...it's August 13th! Yes, I told the biggest fib ever! Anyhow, about a week or so later, I was at her house playing with her and she ran inside and came out with a birthday present for me...May 14th must have been very near. I didn't utter a word. I accepted it graciously, and tore into it with full-fledged excitement! To my amazement, it was a loom kit, which I'd been wanting for so long! I had visions of making all sorts of pot holders with it. I couldn't have been happier...UNTIL...Mom found it in my room and asked me about it. I fessed up and told her that I'd lied to Teresa (who's daddy was a minister!) about it being my birthday. She had me march myself down to Teresa's house and apologize to her mom! Not only that, but I had to give my loom kit back to her! The injustice of it all! Mom had no mercy on me that day...and it was an experience I won't soon forget! .jpg)
"Pictures are like money in the bank - they're worth more over time and you can never have too many."~Ed Napier
Hope y'all have a nice, relaxing weekend!!! Spring is just around the corner...or so they say! The temperatures are supposed to drop and rain is predicted all weekend long. Guess where I'll be tomorrow? A track meet! Just pray the rain holds off. They, typically, carry on with business, as usual. Last year, Brittany ran in a full-blown snowstorm! I have a feeling it's going to be a REALLY bad hair day! :)
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Awesome pictures sweetie. Your mom was, and is very beautiful. I hope our moms are friends in heaven, I really think they are. I love you.
You are so sweet at those pictures:)
Wib.
This is such a sweet post about you and your Mom.
Hugs,
Chris
Those are great pictures and GREAT stories! That b/d lesson was one you would never forget nor try again....lol
I think my mom's beehive might've been bigger than your mom's - lol! These photos are great! And one day the kids will be laughing at our hairstyles (oh wait, my stepson has already seen my highschool photos and asked me if Farrah Fawcett was missing her feathered hairdo! LOL!!)
Awesome photos sweetie!!! I always love coming to see your Friday posts and see the old photos...you are right...you haven't changed one ounce!
I have pics of my mom with a beehive and capris on. I think they were called pedal pushers then. What goes around comes around...I see some pretty bee hivey hair these days and of course, I love my capris. :)
I love your little fib story. I lied to my first grade teacher and told her that my dad was a truck driver. I remember thinking that was so cool. My dad was actually a federal agent!! Go figure.
I love when you share your pictures and stories!!!!! LOVE IT!!
I hope we get your rain. I have nothing planned for the weekend, except cooking, baking, movie watching and card making! ALL inside stuff!
Good luck to Brittany!!!!!
How fun are old pictures... they do hold so many memories.. dont they
Maybe you should go get a "beehive" before the track meet, they hold up to any weather LOL
thank you for sharing
Hi April...what a little stinker you were...LOL. My older brother brought his entire 4th grade class home one day after school & told them he was having a birthday party...NOT...it wasn't even his birthday...LOL. Hey, I had a hairdo like your mom's, but I do believe mine was even taller!
Heehee...;-) Bo
April,
My friend your Mom's hairdo was just too cute! Back then it was just the rave you know.
And tomorrow at the track...good thing for hair clips and pony tails..hope Brittany has a great event!
Blessings to you all!
I love your pics! And I'm so glad that we live in the STRAIGHT HAIR generation. Ha. :o)
love your moms hair! Enjoyed this post!
Oh my gosh, do I remember setting in that beauty shop getting that bee hive hair do...lol...we were far out back then...lol..great pictures your Mom was a beautiful lady and you were so cute. Mom's were tough on their little ones back then but I beleive that is what made our kids the good people they are today, they were taught morals and valuves the hard way where you didn't forget them real soon.
Molly
What fun stories!! Love the pictures...and your Mom is indeed beautiful! Hope the weather surprises you in a good way this weekend!
I had that hair do too. The sprayer was connected by a cord to the huge container of what I used to call Shelac!
Your mom was a good one to handle the lie the way she did. You learned an important lesson that day. Oh that mothers would all care as much.
Love the stories! Those beehives where a 'big' thing back in the day! I spent a lot of time teasing and spraying to get the same look.
OH! you bad girl...and lying in a minister's home! What were you thinking?...that you couldn't wait for August to come? lol! What a cute picture of the two of you. I would love to know what her mom said to you.
Thank you so much for sharing.
Oh...May 14 is just around the corner!
xoxoxo,
Deborah
A loom kit? : ) That is classic. I wanted one of those too. Was that the kind where you could wrap all different colors of string around and make a pot holder? I don't think I ever got one though!
You were so adorable when you were little! Sweet as can be!
And PS I totally totally dig your mom's beehive! Wowza!
Well, because I have such volume in my hair, I have a natural behive!! lol SO, I totally dig your mom's hair! :)
That was a great story about your friend and the loom. - AND you had to give it back!? WOW! Your mom was a toughy! :)
Have a great weekend, friend.
Hi April,
Love these photos and reading your wonderful memories!
What would we do without our old pictures???
Your mom was very pretty!
you have the cutest pictures and the best stories to go with them! good luck at the track tomorrow!
Hi!
Great photos!! Brought back lots of memories. Thanks for sharing. Have a great day!!
Sherrie
OH how i love those pictures. you always post the best blats from the past pics...awesome!
Oh, I can remember my mom's beehive hair doo. Gotta love it. Sure hope it doesn't come back into style again.
What a cute little girl you were. Love the stories. Those were the good days weren't they?
Hugs,
Angela
love the picture of you and your mom-I also remember going to the hair dresser once a week with my mom and watching her get her hair done for the week! What were they thinking!!!???
I can't take my hair after two days without washing!!!
Have a great hair day and weekend! LOL
Those pictures are great April! I love your moms hair. My mom had a similar style. She would sleep in toilet paper.
Have fun at the track meet this weekend. I hope the weather is nice!
XOXO
Jen
And I bet the "beauty operator"...thats what we use to call them...sprayed your Mom's hair with Aqua Net!!! And wasn't it amazing how our moms went to the beauty shop once a week and never did their hair in between!? My how times have changed! And everyone fought for those Friday appointments so they would look their best for the weekend. Friday was known as "beauty shop day" in my hometown in Texas. Anyway, you and your mom were both beauties! Thanks for sharing!
Maisa
Love those pictures!
How sweet! I love vintage pictures.
I remember my mom getting her hair done like that as well!
Oh, I can imagine that birthday incident taught you a valuable lesson. I hope that you eventually got that loom that you wanted!
take care,
Dawn
Wow, that hair is amazing. Makes you wonder if she used it as a purse too, you know, stashing everything in the middle of it so she didn't have to carry a purse! Thanks for sharing.
Take care, Sue
Cute pictures! I hope you stay warm and dry this weekend.
Hi April
I enjoyed the cute pictures of you with your lovely Mom and your friend.
So sorry to hear about having to give back your loom kit. Did she give you it again in August?!!
I always thought your birthday would be in April!!!!
I hope the weather is kind to you tomorrow at the track.
Have a great weekend.
Lindsay
I love old pics! Almost as much as I love George Clooney.
Those are great photos, and the stories with them are even better!
You are so sweet in those photos.....
Liar, liar, pants on fire!! Hee Hee!! I just had to do that April. What a funny story! And you know~it was just a little fib and we all had little experiences like that~they just snowballed.
When I was about 7 or so, my friend Scottie and I heard that this family that had a rabbit hutch in their backyard were actually making rabbit soup with the bunnies. So we thought we would rescue a few... so there I was with a few little white bunnies hidden in our garage and I was beside myself, wondering how to fess up, not get in trouble, return the rabbits..whooo! It all turned out fine and there is a picture somewhere of all of us kids playing with the bunnies in our yard before my mom & dad returned them!
Sorry for the post!! The beehive...oh yeah! I loved it. When my mom sprayed her hair in the bathroom, the flies froze in mid~air!
Have a great weekend girlfriend!
Hey, Good for you getting the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang tickets! Chris is a sweetie. I remember loving the book.
xoxo
Jane
Me again! I keep meaning to come back for that question thingy you passed on to me. I have to have Emily or Abby show me, the blonde, how to link it to my blog. If you can help me, send me an email at blndy9@yahoo.com
Thanks April! :-)
My mama had that hairdo too. I remember going to the beauty shop every Saturday morning. My sister and I would read the gossip magazines when we were older. We could also hear all the local gossip from the ladies sitting under the dryers. Mama would tease that hair and spray a can of AquaNet over her head. After all, that hairdo had to last until her next visit to the beauty shop.
LOL! Lovin' the beehive hairdo!
Are you scanning your photos here? They look awesome every time you post them!!!
LOL at you with the little fib told to your friend. However, I would have done the same thing as your mom did.
Okay, dress warm tomorrow and enjoy the meet! You are one GREAT mom my friend! I am sure that I would do the same thing if one of my girls participate in CC, but I'd probably whine the entire out there in the cold. I don't do well with cold weather...at all!
Enjoy your weekend!
When I looked on my sidebar today the picture of you mom was the icon. It looked just like a pic of my mom and I when I was younger. Love the pics.. it brings me back.. the old hair do's... Have a great weekend April!
Those pictures are great, April! Such wonderful memories! Did you ever get the loom back when your real birthday rolled around? That was just too funny! Stay warm at the track meet. It's pretty chilly here as well.
What a sweet post about you and your mom. Love all the pictures and I love the quote you shared about pictures being like money in the bank. So true!
I just popped over because I see that you and I read and comment on a lot of the same blogs and I just wanted to say "hi"! I'm a Georgia girl, myself, and was curious what part of GA you live in?
Have a great weekend!
We must be around the same, er age ~ because I certainly remember staring at my aunt's hairdo when I was a little girl wondering how in the world she would get it that "poofy"! Lol And I knew Six Flags quite well ~ grew up in Arlington! And now I live close to Hot Springs! Small world huh?! :-)
Sorry about losing the loom kit ! LOL
Oh and thanks for not waking Buddy...he's still just laying there! :-) Laura
Oh, April!
Bless your heart! What a sweet daughter of you, not to be angry with your mom for making you do the right thing. Isn't it sad to think that alot of children would be? Or that alot of moms wouldn't worry about their children's character? Sounds as though you were very blessed to have a mother who cared! (Even though it was painful to return that gift and admit the truth! ;*)
I hope that y'all don't get sick at the track meet. Wow! They make them practice in the bad weather? Drink a bunch of orange juice!
Blessings,
Julie
Hi- I'm over from Lisa's carnival.
I had a very similar experience. My sister and I , while in Elementary School, found these raffle tickets under the kitchen sink.(My Mom never threw anything out!). We decided to go and sell them.
We made lots of money. Maybe , like $20-$36- dollars or so-the 1960's-and so very pleased w/ourselves and our work.(BTW-I was the baby-my sister is 2 1/2 years older). :)
Thinking we had done something so good, we probably showed our parents, and well, you know what Dad made us do! We marched right back out to return every single dollar/coin, that we'd collected. I think the raffle had passed.
Boy, was that hard, but we did it, and of course felt awful. We didn't realize that we could'nt keep the money. Imagine 2 cute little girls coming and selling raffle tickets. The buyers probably didn't notice right away the expired raffle tickets!
Anyway, love your pictures:)
April!!!
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Such a beautiful post about you and your moms, such wonderful pictures.
Thanks for stopping by the soiree, I hope you had fun.
Magic and Joy!
Lisa!
P.S. On Post no.7 on my blog is for the soiree giveaways!
Hi April--love the picture of you and your mom. Those hairstyles were really something weren't they? I bet our kids will say the same thing about us--(they already are!).
Your birthday fib is quite a story. I do remember loving those potholder looms too. We had those potholders around our house for years!
Ed Napier could not have said it any better.
Love the beehive.
I think we are the same age...I recognize all of the styles!
Great photos!! That is too funny about your birthday fib! Hope you have a great "dry" week with no bad hair days.
Hi!
Just wanted to pop-in to thank you for entering a past giveaway I had on my blog - I would like to inform you of another giveaway I have open right now (Girl's Paisley Swing Top)! Winner will be announced on 3/20 - so enter by the 19th :) Also - I've got future giveaways planned, so keep a look out!
God Bless,
Celeste
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What a great mom you had!! But I am sorry you had to give the loom kit back! Great pictures too...we must treasure the memories.
I am going to bed soon, but I just wanted to pop over and thank you again for praying for me during my traumatic time at work. You are the bestest : ).
LOL
That was pretty funny! I can't believe you did that BUT it's something I would have totally done too. heehee!
What a great picture of you and your mama! Love it.
You were so cute when you were little. I can appreciate the beehive hair. My mom had the same thing. I remember watching her tease her hair high too! Man, with as much hairspray a they wore back then to keep them up you'd think they ought to wear a sign around their neck saying highly flammable! LOL
Love the pictures!
The freaky thing is that May 14th IS my birthday... and August 13th is my HUSBAND'S birthday! What are the odds?!
Thanks for stopping by our blog - what a beautiful family you have!
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