purple corduroy knickers.
purple knee socks.
pink turtleneck sweater.
david crosby?
oh man i loved the zip sled!
my grandpa harold drove the boat and i waved to everyone we passed.
my mom was the queen of the floating styrofoam lawn chairs.
my mom used to wash my hair in the kitchen sink.
did yours?
kristine - wow! talby looks just like you! i WANT that floating styrofoam chair!! yes, my mom washed my hair in sink…HATED IT!
tami reed - your kids look just like you lol
Nan - Oh my gosh. I totally had purple corduroy knickers!
Grammy Dianne - Just read the comment about curly perms and the kitchen sink. I’m really “old” and have tortuous memories of leaning over a kitchen sink and having all the really smelly stuff rinsed out of my hair. The kicker was, I hated curly hair and wanted two braids hanging down my back. My mother would have none of that. So guess the hair style my daughter wore for years, two braids. I almost fainted when she turned ten and wanted a permanent. Go figure! Loved this post, and the comments, the kitchen sink as part of Americana.
jennibell - I wash my kids’ hair in the kitchen sink — ha! And I would have been the Queen of the Floating Arm Chair too. . .all I have is the kids’ tube 🙂 And yep, had those knickers too. Except mine were turquoise. We must be about the same age.
Rach - OMG, those pics remind me of my own childhood and I kid you not, I had those very same knickers only mine were in green!! Ha!
jeanne - OK…you were adorable. Me…not so much and I don’t know if I would have the nerves to show those photos.
deb meyers - aw meg, you’re so cute!
Yep, on the sink-hairwashing thing. My mother gave me curly perms when I was a toddler, even. And that included sink trips.
candace - Wow, talby looks JUST like you. My mom washed my hair inthe sink too. I really loved it when she used that white rubber hose sprayer thingy!
This post is great!
Mindi - Your daughters look just like you!! So cute! My grandmother, Granis, used to put us in the kitchen sink to wash our hair and then sit us down with a fine tooth comb and comb thin strands, then curl them around her finger… I am amazed that a)she was patient enough to do this and b)we would sit still long enough for them to dry so that we would have curly hair!
Oh! And she used Joy dish soap instead of shampoo!!!!
Kim - wow, everyone’s already said it, but your two littles look SO much like you! what was it with the 80’s and washing hair in the sink!? we loved it, except my mom would use some vinegar to rinse, and we hated that.
Christina - Yes, the kitchen sink. Ah! I could never do that now. haha
Your girls look so much like you. 🙂
Lori - My mom washed her hair in the kitchen sink for as long as I can remember. Didn’t know it was so common!
Laura Zarrin - Yes she did! I haven’t thought of that in a long time. Great pics. I grew up in St. Louis. Your lake photos and the zip sled brought back great memories! Thanks.
JJ - As if you need another comment-but I had to reply. Yes! My mom did wash my hair in the kitchen sink- what was up with that? I’m thinking of Breck shampoo. I recenly found your blog- it’s a happy place!
Carol S. - Check out that album collection!! Big music fans, gotta love it. Uh huh, we did the “car wash” in the kitchen sink, that was my mom’s fun way of getting us to get our hair washed. Was just talking to her, and she still washes her hair daily in the kitchen sink on the days she doesn’t shower. Can not EVEN imagine a bottle of shampoo under my kitchen sink these days. Yes, strong resemblance to your girls. You look like you had a joyful childhood and a fun and happy mom. Enjoy!
Julie - This is beyond awesome. Also, I think I had the same purple knickers!!!
Staci Danford - OK.. I am totally cracking up.. YES YES YES my mom washed my hair in the kitchen sink.. haha What memories that brought back. I’d lay on the counter and lay my head back in the sink… So funny to think of it now…. but I think I’d kinda like her to try that again.. LOVE This post… And wow did I have some knickers too.. Thought they were literally the coolest things on the whole planet.
Staci
Meredith - I absolutely HAD to comment on this one!! Yes, my Mom washed my hair in the kitchen sink! I actually laid across the kitchen counter and hung my head back into the sink. She did this till I was too LONG for the countertop! Gosh, how old was I when she was still washing my hair like that?!?!
se7en - Oh What a cute post… Memory lane!!! Love it!!!
Tere - Yep, Talby looks like her mama. Such beautiful eyes!
mandi - haha! david crosby in the background is HILARIOUS! my husband and i were just talking about the styrofoam floating chairs. how we wished we could find some. : )
i was reading some of your older entries- the one on your wedding. your list of what you would want for another wedding made me think of the re-wedding my husband planned for us last summer. totally on his own. total surprise to me. we had quilts on hay, a big wavy grass field, family and friends, yummy food…too perfect. if you wanna peek you can looksy here:
http://herbanhomestead.blogspot.com/2009/06/one-lovely-event-one-sweet-husband.html
LibraryGirl62 - I graduated high school in 1980…sigh…and I totally wish I could rock the Styrofoam lawn chair! All those new fangled foam things just don’t get it for me
patti - Wow…your girls really look like you as a kid – minus the purple corduroy, of course. Crazy how that works! 🙂
tara pollard pakosta - You know what is hilarious?! I had those exact same purple knicker pants LOL! and YES< my mom used to wash my hair in the kitchen sink til I was 14 because I was afraid of showers and it was easier to do in the sink than bend over the bath-tub! too FUNNY! tara
adrienne - my mom still washes her hair in the sink :)) i see a bit of talby and annie in your pictures!
Sandra K - Hi Meg,
My mom totally washed my hair in the kitchen sink and I loved it! So funny to think about that now. Thanks for a happy trip down memory lane!
Amy - Wow….brings back wonderful 80’s memories. Lauren looks just like your sister in the last pic!! Annie and Talby look just like you! Sink hair washing was bigtime in my family too. My mom fixed (TEASED) my grandmothers hair for years and always washed it in the kitchen sink, ha!
Marley - My mom always washed my hair in the sink! I asked her to do it until I was about 15
Stephanie Carroll - I;m 26 and I still ask my mom to wash my hair in the sink when I go home. That’s not weird, right?
Theresa - My girls love it when I wash their hair in the sink – your lake photos remind me of my parent’s house – thanks for sharing!
Jennifer - girlfriend…this is great! you made me smile with this post…brought back some of my own family, childhood memories from the ’80s!
Nina Diane - wow….I can really see Annie and Talby in you
Peggyrice@gmail.com - Only when I had head lice:)
Suzanne Gallagher - Used to…sometimes I still do! Sometimes a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do in a small amount of time .
Have a great weekend!
Sara @ It's Good to be Queen - love it. Talby & Annie look just like you!!
Tara - My hair was super long, I would lay on the counter and get it washed in the sink..lol.. what great memories. I love your blog.
Dianne Avery - Me too! I completely forgot that my hair was washed in the kitchen!! So funny. Maybe we should start a new trend and bring it back. 🙂
Gemma - Very cute! We’ve been looking back at old photo’s recently. Isn’t it funny to look back and think…”what on earth am I wearing that for?!?!” Heehee!
Your girls definitely look like you : )
Gemma X
sarah - How cute!
The first one is my absolute favorite!!
Thanks for sharing 🙂
Ruth - I think I had that same outfit only in a dark green color with clogs! Loved it.
Kate @ Songs Kate Sang - My mom ALWAYS washed my hair in the sink… what was with that?
You look JUST like your girls – sooo cute!
emily - oh my goodness . . . i’m 99% sure i had the exact same knickers AND knee highs!!!!
my mom always washed my hair in the sink . . . what great memories!! i have washed my girls hair in the sink a couple times and they think it’s so silly!!
Heather - i need one of those floating lawn chairs right away. awesome!
Karen Gerstenberger - I loved these photos! We were BIG Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young fans. =)
My mom used to bathe all of me in the kitchen sink – and there are (blackmail) photos to prove it!
Have a great weekend.
Cate O'Malley - Love the styrofoam floating lawn chair. Talby could not possibly look more like you from those pictures. I, um, totally still wash my hair in the sink.
Laura - How old are you? LOL! I’m 35 and I have pictures that look EXACTLY like those. As a matter of fact, my mom took a before, during and after picture of me getting my hair washed in the sink and it cracks me up every time I see them. I go from looking scared, to crying to smiling with my beautifully dried and Farrah Fawcett-ed hair, LOL!
Sarah@Clover Lane - It is TOTALLY Talby! I really really thought it was!
Shann - Yup! My mom washed my hair in the kitchen sink all the time! How funny! Your daughters all look a bit like you! How sweet! 🙂
virginia - i saw a macgruber movie trailer last night…i thought of you
Cori - i keep thinking of jaws on your skiing picture. get outta the water…hahhahahah. these pics are so fun, and i love reading your blog.!
Jodi - Omg, I think I had those exact same purple knickers!
Jaimie - you look just like talby! or rather, she looks just like you as a kid.
michelle from six in the city - O my gosh! What a flash back for me!
I had a couple pair of knickers that my mother made me:-) And I used to love for her to wash my hair in the sink!
erica - WOW! talby looks just like you and annie favors you so much too! how fun! and do i see a rainbow bathing suit under that life jacket? looks live you’ve always had a love for it 😉
Martina - Bathroom sink. Love the 80’s pics! We had a floating lawn chair also!
(I still wash my hair in the kitchen sink every once in a while when I don’t have time/need for a full shower.
Rachel @ Pencil Shavings - This is SO funny.
Yes, we had a floating lawn chair (loved that thing) and yes, my mom would scrub my hair in the kitchen sink. She believed hair wasn’t clean until it squeaked, literally. It wasn’t until I was, ohh, 20 that I realized that squeaky hair is sad, sad hair stripped of all its natural oils. Hahaha!
Weirdly enough, sometimes I like to wash my hair in the sink when I don’t have time for the full-on-hop-in-the-shower. Is that weird?
Lisa - Those pictures are GREAT! Yep, Dad washed my hair over the sink every day. 🙂
katy - Cool pics, I can definitely see your girls in your pics. Yes, I had many a hairwashing in the sink…what was up with that????
Julie - Very nostalgic! Your daughters do look just like you! I have one mini-me, a daughter, and one son looks like me. Very sweet post. I like the first photo of you ~ lots of personality!
Elizabeth - My mom and grandma still wash theirs in the sink. . . eeeeeewwwww!
Katie (Re:fresh Design Studio) - Wow, so fun to see that your girls look just like you!!
Yes, my mom always washed my hair in the kitchen sink or laundry room sink, haha!
Anna Marie - These pictures could easily pass for Talby (besides the completely outdated surroundings…ha!).
jennifer - I don’t know if she did for me… BUT she STILL washes HERS in the sink to this day! Ha! (I swear!)
Jessica - One Shiny Star - Your kiddos look just like you!
Messy@Bungalow'56 - Brings back those 80’s memories. Oh boy. Funny how everything looks so familiar. I wasn’t quite as stylish as you though. Amazing how your girls look like you. I look like the nanny with mine. They are all their father.
Dana
Melanie - Love the pictures!
Kristy - I think I had knickers just like that. And I do remember my mom washing her hair and my hair in the kitchen sink, funny thing is I wouldn’t think of doing that now.
Christine J. - Your Talby looks JUST LIKE YOU! So, so cute!!!
Bec - Of course she did! Sometimes when I’m visiting home and I am in a rush, I still use the good ol’ kitchen sink for a quick wash.
4JJM - WOW! Your daughters look exactly like you…how cool!!!
Trish - Cute… you look a lot like Talby 🙂
Melissa Gruber - love the flashback pictures. my grandma use to wash my hair in the kitchen sink!
Brittney - you look JUST like your girls! It’s scary!
Sarah Mahan - my mom washed my hair in the sink too!
CarrieBeth James - yes!!! my mom did! i was just talking about this to some friends!
recently i was kind of sick, and had to wear a heart monitor, so i couldn’t shower for a day. my boyfriend came over to hang out with me and i asked if he would wash my hair in the sink since i couldn’t shower. he was so kind to do so, and it brought back great memories! and for some reason it was hilarious, we laughed and laughed and laughed!
Jill J. - I would totally wear that top outfit! FASHION! And like everyone else said… Holy cow that looks like Talby!
Morning T - Wow, these bring back memories. My mom and her friends STILL was their hair in the kitchen sink to this day. Too funny…
Molly - Oh and yes my mom used to wash our hair in the kitchen sink. And in that last picture it looks like it COULD BE Annie!!!
Molly - I love this! Great pics!
Staci - It’s Talby! No, wait, it’s Annie 🙂 Oh man, I see your girls in those pictures of you 🙂 Sweet sweet pics. Yes, my mom would wash our hair in the sink….and then on Saturday night…we would all watch Love Boat and she would put those pink styrofoam curlers in our hair….also used that pink “Zippity Doo” stuff???? How funny! I can still smell that stuff 🙂 Thanks Meg 🙂
Audrey - Oh my goodness…your youngest two girls look just like you! Adorable!!
alyssa - i agree, i see talby so much!
alyssa - love the pics!
A pocket full of posies... - Oh my goodness!!! yes! she did! (and she STILL washes hers in the sink!) Too cute!!! what a fun trip down memory lane!
Blessings!
Jill
Nancy - You bet my mom washed our hair in the sink. I think with Prell or Suave. My neck would kill me at the end too. I had a Grandpa Harold, too, by the way. Carefree days.. ahhh
Kelly - That first pic with the socks and the knickers — hilarious! ha!
http://www.kellyloves.wordpress.com
Heather R. - I see Talby in these pics of you! I remember my Mom floating around the pool in the same styrofoam seat…LOL. What a giggle. Thanks for sharing! ~Heather R.
Katie - Yes! My mom always washed my hair in the kitchen sink. Probably until I was older than I need to admit!
Tara @ the cinnamon post - I had the knickers…and mine were dusty rose. And the t-straps. Standard.
Love these.
~Tara
Christy Henderson - Cute pictures! The first picture looks just like Talby!
Rebecca Kriner - Meg- is it me or does Annie look JUST like you?
Suzanne D - Those are awesome pictures!! I had blue knickers just like your purple ones – and I loved them!! Thanks for sharing!
LouBoo - Love these – there is something about the photography, the light that makes it look like every pic from my childhood too! Such 80s children. And all those records behind you in the first shot – so before ipods!! They were rockin a turntable… L x
Angela B. - So fun! That first picture of you looks so much like Talby. I also rocked the purple corduroy knickers and I would wear them with purple and pink argyle knee-high socks. I thought I was so stylish! Thanks for the fun flashback.
Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - I can’t believe how much you look like your girls, or I should say they look like you…wow!
Lori - Mom would wash my hair in the kitchen sink too. And the water was always too hot! Love these pictures. Amazing to see how much Talby and Annie look like these pictures!
Courtney Walsh - these are awesome! I love the floating lawn chair!!
We definitely did the sink-wash! Is it weird that I still remember things like, towels and sheets we had when I was little? So weird!
angela - First of all, YES, every Saturday night my hair was washed in the kitchen sink!
Second, your Talby looks JUST LIKE YOU !!
Liz - These pictures are priceless, and you are adorable. How fun! Thanks for sharing.
Jill - i would still wash my hair in the kitchen sink sometimes if only my toddler/preschool aged boys didn’t try to smack me in the butt when i do it! 🙂
you were (still are) ADORABLE!
Sarah @ Dream In Domestic - Awwww what a cutie! I love looking back at pictures when I was a kid. So many good memories!