The Whatevers #3 Creative Storytelling...The Beach

Yay I got it finished in time for the next challenge to be released on 9/15...are you in?

Here’s my story & I’m sticking with it!!!

Hidden journaling behind tag:

It was another rainy day at the beach…the kind of rain that would go on all day. Grandma decided to bake my favorite gingerbread cookies and I kept her company working on all the pictures she gave me.

I found one of the four sisters all dressed in their finest summer whites, sitting for a formal portrait at the beach. Gosh…weren’t they hot, why would you wear dresses to the beach?

As the afternoon went on I kept digging through the box of photos and was so pleased with the treasures I found. I actually found pictures of my aunties Tootsie, Mamie and Weezie in bathing dresses…still in dresses at the beach. Then I found a photo of my Mom & her siblings…I would love to know what they were laughing about. And then one of us.

Although time has marched on those 4 sisters were always at the beach with us.

Hidden journaling{upper right corner}

1^st generation born in America. L to R. Adolf, Emma & Sophia {my Mom}. Grandma & her 3 sisters would sit on the beach and watch as  they frolicked on the beach, always properly dressed…do they ever go swimming?

Hidden journaling {lower left corner}

Going to the beach was always a family affair…it was also a daylong adventure that included a picnic lunch and dinner. It was 3 generations enjoying the sand, sun and water.  We are the 2^nd generation born in America {Grandma & her family immigrated from what was once known as Loetzin, East Prussia in the early 1900’s}. For some reason there are only 4 of us in the photo and I suspect the 2 youngest were in baby carriages.  L. to R. Michael, Melinda, ME, & Michele…missing Mary & Mark.

There is still time to play along with this fun challenge and you can find all the details here.