SepteRemember: Mom & John #3

One of my favorite things about my family is that we always took a lot of family trips. This picture is from the summer of 1972 when we visited historic Williamsburg. Poor Mom and John got put in the stocks for being bad. (left to right: some stranger, John-3, Mike-8, Carolyn-6/7, Mom-36, me-5, Dad-37)

If you look closely you'll see I'm holding my birthday present from that year. I was taken to the the toy department and had the opportunity to pick out whatever I wanted ("within reason" I'm sure Dad said) and I chose a stuffed Winnie-the-Pooh. I still have that sad bear in a box at home. He took some damage even yet that summer when John and Mike threw him into the pool at camp. At least that's what I remember.