This photo was taken sometime around December 1965 or January 1966 at grandma Smedley's house in Paris, Idaho. See the little baby doll in my mom's lap? That's actually my baby sister. She was actually the whole reason we were all dressed up and posing for photos. This was the day that she was blessed at grandma and grandpa's church. I know, dad looks grumpy doesn't he.
See the secretary behind dad? My great-grandfather Poulsen made that. That's where grandma kept the color book and crayons and the pencil sharper (you know, the kind they have at school). I sure wish that I had that secretary. I am always on the lookout for one similar to that.
Notice how the t.v. is unplugged. Grandma always kept it unplugged when it wasn't on for fear of something happening during a storm. The rack of the t.v. stand is where she kept the catalogs, you know from Penneys, Sears, Montgomery Ward. You can bet later that night I was sitting in front of the heater in my jammies looking through the toy section of every one of them. A few years later I sat in that very same spot and searched through that famous Sears catalog and I never could find that underwear guy.
I loved that wallpaper. I was kind of sad when they took it down.
You are probably wondering about the title. This was before my brother was born so we were only a "family of four" at the time.