The picture above is of the Ledet Family reunion - a rabble if I ever saw one. My three rabble brats are at the end of the first row on the right. Their rabble parents are at the end of the last row on the right (not the very last group in the middle at the top). My favorite aunt is right smack in the middle of the group, with the reddish hair, and my mother is in the same row, the third down to the right of my aunt. My great-grandfather was a Ledet from Bayou Lafourche. As close as I can figure, the picture is from the mid-1970s.
As usual, click on the picture for the larger view.
I love it...looks like everyone was having a great time (you even had a ¨nun¨ to do the pray´n!
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Leonardo, thanks. In the 1970s, everyone looked like rabble, don't you think?
ReplyDeleteSon of a gun, we had big fun on the bayou.
What a clan!! I have to say, there's a few auntie types in there that look as if they're not quite sure what it's all about, but your immediate family including you all look like you're getting into the spirit of things, Mimi. (Did you have reddish hair as well? or am I looking at totally the wrong person??)
ReplyDeleteCathy, I had light brown hair which looked reddish in pictures sometimes, but not in real life.
ReplyDeleteHow 'bout my white "handbag", as both you and Leonardo would say?
Hey, I had a white handbag in the 70s!! It's well groovy, Mimi.
ReplyDelete(I have to admit for a second there, because you had "handbag" in inverted commas, I thought, does she mean Grandpere? Then I looked at the picture again.)
YIKES! Yes, the 70´s wasn´t exactly a great era for hairstyles, ready-to-wear (even by Maison Blanche) but THOSE WHITE BELTS on the fellas really ARE horrible (I fear there may be matching shoes)..but you, dear Mimi look healthy and full of life (as I got sober in ´78 I don´t think I was probably as perky as you seem to be)!
ReplyDeleteBUT, we had fun (mostly)!
Life is wonderful, all of it, it just takes a little getting used to (like reality).
Love to all,
Leonardo Ricardo (I can´t make my sign in work)
Cathy, I'm rolling on the floor. Grandpère's been called a lot of things in his lifetime, but I think you inaugurated him as a "white handbag". I must run to tell him.
ReplyDeleteI had a merry time of it in England with purse/handbag and wallet/purse after I lost my wallet/purse in Leeds, which I why I put "handbag" in quotes.
Len, in the 1970s, I was cleaning house, washing and ironing clothes, and serving up hot meals every day to my family wearing high heels, just like Donna Reed. I'm joking only about the high heels. The rest of it is what I thought I had to do to be a good wife and mother. I'm afraid that I was not quite as serene as Donna Reed.
One thing I regret is that I didn't take more time out from the chores to ENJOY my children.
Donna Reed really WAS serene...I read that during the final months before her death she telephoned friends daily to find out HOW THEY WERE! Quite a standard.
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How lovely.
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