My Adopted Family

I found this photo in a box marked "Instant Relatives" at one of my favorite antique shops and thought they looked like they needed a good home. I doubt one day pictures of me will end up for sale in a dusty shoebox somewhere, they lack that grainy and charming quality of black and whites from the Twenties. On the offchance they do, I'd like to apologize in advance to the youth of the future flipping through those mouldering pictures and being confronted with my pasty, pimpled face from 8th grade staring back.

Chums

" I have the goggles now I wish I had an auto."

Kris and I popped by one of our many Antique Malls this past weekend and I stumbled across this huge display of vintage postcards from the early 1900's. I spent about 40 minutes flipping through all the categories and settled on these two. The first, because I'm a sucker for photographs like this (in your FACE, Anne Geddes), and I fully intend to exploit my own children in this manner when I have any. The second, because the inscription on the back references the illustration on the front. There is a giant yellow moon with an even larger spoon floating in front of it and in the corner is the word "Chums". Penned on the reverse side, in beautiful script, it says:

You're the Moon

And I'm the Spoon

Guess I'll have to

visit you in a balloon.

I don't know about you but that would have made my day.