“This is…That Extra Special Prize Photo”

Apr 25th “This is…That Extra Special Prize Photo”

Sure was a good thing to have a “Visiting Sunday” once a month, as you can see… that the McClarren children were so very HAPPY!

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You can tell … just by looking at the faces on these wonderful children… that “one” that is rated as “Top Dog” and “Leader of the Band”… as he has his chest out, and that “Irish Smile” will get “Doors” to open wide … just for him!

In case you were wondering who that is!

That is our “A #1 smartest one of the gang… he can win friends and or anyone, just by looking as he does here.

Just thought … as I think about it… so many of our Photos that we are all together in… Tommy is smiling, no matter what we are doing. I do not think that he ever had a sour face and or sour attitude about anything in LIFE.

Now that I give this a second thought… Tommy was the youngest, and it was our duty to make Tommy happy as everything was new and exciting to him, as we once had that same amount of attention… extra special attention was given when “YOU” were that youngest baby… but now that we are those that are older and had that FUN then… guess it just seems to be old stuff to us… that are just a year or two older!

After all of the years that have just sailed by… for all of us, can not really tell just exactly how we felt in those young years… as they are but mere memories… of which have been very good to remember and as some other’s just plain forgotten forever!

Just have to give credit to my Aunt Irene Brady Riley… She did make a lot of the clothes that I wore.

That blouse that I have on, she made, and the skirt that I have on, she did buy… as it is a “Poodle Skirt” which was a fad for a time, back then.

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I may have worn that skirt and blouse on two different Visiting Sundays… and then never ever saw it again.

So many of our clothes were sent to Germany, as I understood that they had NUNS there that were in need of things for the HOMES and programs that they also served there.

How do you like those “Knickerbockers” that my brothers are wearing?

They must have been donated to the HOME… as I remember the boys wearing these for several years. They are “new” today and in some later years, you will see my brothers and some of the other boys wearing these… new and also in the well worn ages of these… when a large donation of something comes in, and they are free… someone has to wear them!

The two girls on the swing… in the right side of this photo… are as some of the children in this HOME, that never ever have a “VISIT” from Family or relatives in the their family.

In all the years that I was there… there were no real “Orphans”… as everyone did have a relation of some kind that could Visit … write and or send something to that child… so then… they will sit around and just watch the friendly get together of other kids with their family… and wish that if only someone in their family, would show up for a visit … and me with them.