THE WAY IT USED TO BE

I love how these two photos show how we used to party in the house I grew up in. So many of us on the floor (aunts and uncles, the boarder, my mother and sisters and cousin and me). All dressed up to sit on the floor! My maternal Grandma Dempsey (who lived with us) in her throne chair (she was "crippled" and needed the extra height to get up, usually I helped her) and paternal Grandma Lally (who lived down the street and came over from Ireland in the 1800s). Someone would tell a joke, or a story, or sing a song. I loved it. And this is only some of us, a smaller gathering than usual.