C: Birthdays
I’ve used this picture before. It is a favorite of mine, V and me at age four. I am using it again because it has a picture in the background of my birthday cake. This is the only picture I can recall of any of my numerous birthday parties (Mother where were you and the camera?): V and I are to the right of the photo, V forward in the darker dress, me over to the right edge of the photo in white. My little brother (now the big-time lawyer) is to the left edge, at age two. You will notice that we were all dressed up. That’s the way birthday parties were “back in the day.” They aren’t pictured, but you can bet that my mother and the other mothers who were there were not in jeans, either. Everyone dressed for special days back then. Back to the cake: It was a Circus Cake, complete with carousel top and plastic circus animals on it. I know without asking that my mother purchased this cake from Kohler’s Bakery. It, really, w...