A happy birthday, 1992
/Throw Back Thursday
This Saturday, Jim will celebrate his birthday with the same cake — his favorite — and the same girls, all grown up (minus Megan, on the right).
Today's question:
What is your favorite cake flavor?
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Our first family computer, 1994
/Throw Back Thursday
It was 1994 — nearly 20 years ago — that Jim managed to land a used computer from work, one to bring home for the family to marvel over and use on a daily basis.
Andrea plays solitaire like a modern girl, Sept. 1994We felt so modern, so plugged in — literally plugged in, with a dial-up modem and all. And oh, the options! We had not only the ability to use 5-1/4-inch floppy disks, our high-tech hand-me-down featured the more up-to-date drive for the not-quite-as-floppy 3-1/2-inch disks, too.
At the start we could access only the public library. Even then, though — months before we signed up for Prodigy — the FTP access to more information than I ever imagined possible absolutely blew. my. mind.
No more Smith Corona word processor for me. I had a computer!
Today's question:
When did you get your first computer and what was your first Internet service?
Crafts with kids, 1986 and 2014
/Throwback Thursday
October 1986 —
Craft time with my two-year-old daughter, Megan:
February 2014 —
Craft time with Megan's two- and five-year-old sons, Mac and Bubby:
Today's question:
What do you do with your grandchildren that you fondly recall doing with their parent(s)?
Denver Broncos fans, 1990
/Throwback Thursday
I've shared this photo several times in the past. Yet never before has there been a more perfect pic for Throwback Thursday, considering the mighty Denver Broncos head to the Super Bowl this Sunday.
Now that they're all grown up and moved out, the three sisters will root, root, root for their home team miles and miles apart from one another.
Despite those miles, though, we're all together on this:
GO BRONCOS!
Today's question:
What are your plans for Super Bowl Sunday?
Grandpa Jerry, 1986
/My stepdad, Jerry, would have been 76 years old today if he hadn't passed away May 29, 1995.
I love this photo of him and my mom — whom many of you know here as Ann — from a December 1986 holiday celebration.
He was a good man.
Happy birthday, Grandpa Jerry — as he was (and still is) known to my girls.
Today's fill-in-the-blank:
The thing I loved most about 1986 was _____________.
