Our first Christmas in 1999.  Wow…we look young.

As you might know I like to bake.  I think I got my joy of baking from my maternal great-grandmother aka Grannie.  Her uncles were bakers here in Woonsocket during the late 1800’s/early 1900’s in the Fairmount area.  I recently made her gingerbread cookie recipe.  Grannie, who’s real name was Antionette, didn’t START going grey until she was in her eighties!  I always hoped it would happen to me, but no such luck.  My mom has said I remind her of Grannie in several ways, including phyiscally.  I think I look a bit like her, too.

  Antoinette around 16-18 years old (1915-1917). 

    Me from this past summer, 33 years old.

  Grannie in her 80’s (in the 1980’s).  She was born in 1899.  That is her natural hair colour!

From back to front: my aunt Marian, my mom Patti, my grandmother Ruth, and me in 2006.