Karisma is our hostess for this week and here is her challenge:
"I want you to take a trip down memory lane, and keep right on going, right back to your childhood. And I want to hear "THAT STORY". You remember the one? Yes, you do! The one your parents, siblings, extended family or friends, would never let you forget, live down or get over!"
Oh I really struggled with this one. I have lots of interesting childhood memories, but none of them are the kind that other people torment me about.
Must be because I was so perfect in every way as a child. (Yes, I'm gagging on my spoonful of sugar here.)
So here is a gratuitous and adorable 1-year-old me:
Truth be told, though, I was a geeky child. Glasses at age 8, braces (more than three years' worth) starting at age 9. Yes, I had glasses and braces at the same time -- starting in the fourth grade. Oh, the trauma. There are no pictures of this travesty because:
1) I NEVER took a photo with my glasses on.
2) I NEVER would have smiled with the braces either.
One of the things that makes me laugh hysterically today is that I had these cat-eye glasses in the third grade that, as I grew into adulthood, I remembered as the worst things EVER. They were oval shaped that swept up into little points on the sides, similar to these
but only in the shape, not in the coolio little decorations. They also weren't red. I had a pair in pink and a pair in blue, both with little sparkles inside the plastic. Hideous really.
So, imagine my hysterical laughter (internal, never out loud) when the Roo-girl picked these out on her last eye doctor appointment:
Ah. What goes around comes around.
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I love the pictures! Those glasses are pretty! Well, the one on your little one.
She can totally pull it off, cause she's so ADORABLE...
I always loved those cat's eye glasses.
And that is one beautiful little girl.
They are in fashion again, lol ! you should have kept them. I remember that wearing glasses was a nightmare for me too, fortunately it was only at school, I was slightly shortsighted and couldn't read the blackboard.
Love the pictures, and I was just thinking those are in style again when I scrolled down to your daughter!
Happy Fun Monday.
Lisa
You were just in fashion before your time! I've been in glasses since I was 15. I once picked out a pair that were thick, eggplant colored frames and HUGE. Your cat eye glasses sound so much more diva like.
You were suck a cute baby and your daughter looks great in the glasses - there are no new fashions!
I love cat eye glasses...wearing a pair right now.
I had braces, glasses and I was the chubby kid in the class. What fun!
Some styles should never be recycled, but those glasses are a winner. Your daughter is so cute in those.
I agree. That style is so cute! And they look great on your daughter.
Come on Mom! They are now called RETRO. Get with it. Too funny!
both cute as a bug... in specs, of course!!
I always loved those glasses!
My daughter has some glasses like hers - only in black. She usually wears contacts, but she thinks she looks "alternative and cool" in those kinds of specs!
I like that yours is "throwin' the deuce" - I see that ALL the time!
I tried to find some cat eyes last time I needed new frames! I remember my mom wearing them.
Like mother like daughter. I bet you looked much cuter than you thought you did!
Many students nowadays tend not to wear their glasses. Instead, they squint, which is not that attractive.
I love both of those pictures.
I remember when my sister got her first pair of glasses, they made her look like a bug with big bug eyes. LOL
I picked on her some kinda bad.
She looks cute as a button, glad you didn't laugh.
Ahhhh you're both so cute. and I love the glasses. I had pink kind of hexagonal shaped ones at aged 14. Now they were bad.
The thing is, when styles come back around, they're always cuter the second (or third...) time around...new and improved, I guess. Roogirl looks great :).
And, yes, I, too, was one of those who had both glasses and braces at the same time. And for goodness sakes, I HAD TO WEAR HEADGEAR 23 HOURS/DAY for a while. I'd kill for a picture of me in it now, but back then, I would've killed if you tried to take my picture!
Your baby pic is adorable, anytime is a good time to post one of those :).
my Sugar Plum has a blue pair of glasses much like Roogirl's!
She looks great in those glasses!
I had simlilar ones. Funny how these styles keep coming back.
What is amazing, and I am speculating, is how much you too look alike. I was thinking that was you in the lower photo. (I was born with black hair, and grew up with blond hair). It is amazing how styles change, and I cringe at the photos of me in my huge glasses from the '80s. I actually have an acquaintance that still wears those glasses from the '80's and they are oversize by those standards. She really has not concern for fashion. Great post, and I understand the whole choking on a spoon of sugar, really I do.
Oh, Janet, I had to start wearing glasses in the fourth grade too. I hated it, I was pratically the only girl wearing glasses anywhere I went. Mine were picked out by my doctor who thought they looked pretty. They blue cat-eye glasses. I still have them so I will post a picture of them to show you. :D
I have frames picked out. I want the old black pair of cat eye glasses.
I think they are too cute. :D But I like to be different. :D
totally cute and cool pic...thanks for sharing...and for the giggles...
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