{"id":3472,"date":"2008-12-28T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T01:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2008-12-28T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T01:45:08","slug":"holly-and-other-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/28\/holly-and-other-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Holly (and other) Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1978:<\/p>\n<p>My brother, Skipper (now answering to his true name, Tim) and me.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m a little older than Kate is right now in this picture.\u00c2\u00a0 Billerica, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3465\" title=\"img_0712\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0712.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0712.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0712-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This must be the moment that my parents explained that my brother, being the boy, would be financially supported through college and that I was expected to marry well right out of high school.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3466\" title=\"img_0713\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0713.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0713.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0713-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1979:<\/p>\n<p>Skip and I with our first big wheels.\u00c2\u00a0 I rode mine until all the stickers fell off or faded to white and there were holes in the wheels.\u00c2\u00a0 The big wheel Skip is on is different than the Hot Wheels tricycle he rode onto the 4-lane high way in the middle of rush hour traffic while my Dad was painting the house.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3467\" title=\"img_0721\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0721.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0721.jpg 1021w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0721-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0721-299x300.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my grandfather&#8217;s German train set under our tree.\u00c2\u00a0 Paul and I have that garland (Filene&#8217;s basement special &#8212; my Mom worked nights at Filene&#8217;s).\u00c2\u00a0 My Dad gave the trains to my Uncle, who sold them (d&#8217;oh!)\u00c2\u00a0 This Christmas, my Dad and brother put together parts of the same train, bought used over the past few months on ebay.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3468\" title=\"img_0728\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0728.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0728.jpg 1008w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0728-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1980:<\/p>\n<p>Still in Billerica!\u00c2\u00a0 I was a Strawberry Shortcake girl.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen that Strawberry and her buds are back&#8230; but taller, thinner, shapelier, and with makeup.\u00c2\u00a0 Ugh.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3469\" title=\"img_0733\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0733.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0733.jpg 997w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0733-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1984:<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d moved to Summerville, SC, by now &#8212; but spent this holiday away from home.\u00c2\u00a0 This is at my Grandma Betty&#8217;s house in Woodstock, VA.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s my cousin Becky in Grandma&#8217;s lap.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3464\" title=\"img_0750\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0750.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0750.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0750-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my cousin Stephen.\u00c2\u00a0 The same guy who took Will fishing last September.\u00c2\u00a0 Remember the necklace?\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s an Annie locket.\u00c2\u00a0 My hair is actually growing out from an Annie perm.\u00c2\u00a0 OH YES, a Little Orphan Annie Perm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3471\" title=\"img_0742\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0742.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0742.jpg 715w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_0742-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That was all I could find in the attic.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some old photos I had backed up my parents&#8217; computer.<\/p>\n<p>2005:<\/p>\n<p>Mobile, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3479\" title=\"img_23291\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_23291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_23291.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_23291-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3478\" title=\"img_22791\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_22791.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_22791.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_22791-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2006:<\/p>\n<p>Mobile, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3481\" title=\"img_48931\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_48931.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_48931.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_48931-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3482\" title=\"img_49301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_49301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_49301.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_49301-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3483\" title=\"img_50121\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_50121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_50121.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_50121-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3484\" title=\"img_50301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_50301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_50301.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_50301-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2007:<\/p>\n<p>Mobile, Alabama and New Orleans, LA.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3475\" title=\"img_11501\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_11501.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_11501.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_11501-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3476\" title=\"img_12001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_12001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_12001.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_12001-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3473\" title=\"img_07071\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_07071.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_07071.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_07071-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3474\" title=\"img_10951\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_10951.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_10951.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_10951-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2008:<\/p>\n<p>Mobile, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3486\" title=\"img_2985\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_2985.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"749\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_2985.jpg 534w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_2985-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3487\" title=\"img_2979\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_2979.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"749\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_2979.jpg 534w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_2979-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3488\" title=\"img_2984\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_2984.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_2984.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_2984-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3480\" title=\"img_29781\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_29781.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_29781.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_29781-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1978: My brother, Skipper (now answering to his true name, Tim) and me.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m a little older than Kate is right now in this picture.\u00c2\u00a0 Billerica, Massachusetts. This must be the moment that my parents explained that my brother, being the boy, would be financially supported through college and that I was expected to marry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85,133,67],"tags":[137,127,138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3490,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions\/3490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}