Mom & J

When I mentioned that J Loyd was Mom & Dads first grandchild in my last post, a memory popped into my mind so I best get it written down before it leaves me. OH' to be young again and have full and total recall!!!
Bev and Cecil lived in a duplex in Rochester after their marriage and was still living there when she gave birth to J. The first grandchild and EVERYONE was so thrilled, especially Mom and Dad. You would think that after raising six children that a baby wouldn't have tripped their trigger as it did but they were over the moon about that sweet grand baby.
Cecil worked in the oil fields and his late shift made him getting home late so as long as the baby slept Bev would sleep late as well.
Dad and Mom were in town early one morning and before returning home they decided that they would go by Bevs and see if they could take the baby with them. You remember that in those days it was so different than today--we never locked our doors. You slept with the door opened and the screen door would be unlatched. Sounds scary now, huh?
Well, Mom opened the door and walked in to find all three of her loved ones sound asleep--just like the 3 bears. She didn't let it stop her - she goes over and lifts J out of the bed, wraps him up, gets his bottle and off they go--Daddy asked if she left a note and she said "yes" only later did we learn that all she wrote was " I got him" didn't sign it at all. I guess that her explanation made sense though - she stated that Bev knew her handwriting. As it turned out Bev did know that Mom was the one that wrote the note. People didn't have to worry so much in those days about the safety of their children as we do today. Mom handled her grandchildren as her own-- filling their bottle with sweet tea on occasion' putting Vicks vapor rub on the bottom of their feet if they had a stuffy nose etc. etc. A great big heaping of love showered on them all of the time.