We celebrated Christmas at
Caroline and Pete’s house on December 23, then attended church together on Christmas
Eve morning before leaving for Missouri to celebrate Christmas again with
Roland’s mother and siblings. But before we left the church, we had our picture
taken as a family.
Taking family photos at Christmas
brings back memories. My older brother, Donald, got interested in photography
when he was in high school and became semi-professional in college. So during each of my college years (and probably for several years after), he took a family
picture and made it into a Christmas card. The first one I remember and have a
copy of is below. I’m guessing it was from 1968, when Donald and I were both in
college and Daddy was serving a yoked parish at Lake City and McBain, Michigan.
That’s the McBain church on the top and the Lake City church on the bottom. Or
it could have been 1969. Daddy accepted a call to Schoolcraft, Michigan that
November but didn’t start until January 1, 1970.
I think these next three
pictures are in order, although I only have a date on the middle one, which is
from 1971. The last one appears to have had dust on it when it was scanned, but
I had to include it because it is the only one I have that shows me in my
contacts (probably taken in 1972 or 1973).
Photos help us remember
what our families looked like, but they do much more. When I look at each of these
photos, memories from that time come flooding back.
And that’s what family
photos should do.
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