52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Week 43. Prompt - Quite The Character

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks

Week 43

Prompt – Quite The Character

My mother was a very complicated person.  Her moods were every colour of the rainbow.  I have 6 siblings and I dare say that we would not agree on how to characterize her.  None the less, there were times that my mother, Lydia Vivian Peters or Vivian, could be quite a character.

I have scanned photos from the family albums that show a sillier side of my mother. Of all her characteristics, being silly seemed the least probable characteristic to explain who she was.

My mother giving her mother, Mary McLaughlin, a hard time about shrinking. 

What was the joke? My mom, Vivian, her mom, Mary, and Vivian's brother Wally.

Mom loved music.  So hiking up her dress to sit down to play drums while my brother's rock band was rehearsing in the garage at home was not surprising.

A cigarette, a coffee and a story as animated as she was. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Among her often sullen angry moods there appeared an almost childlike self that I believe was a longing to go back to a simpler time in her life. This silly side of mom showed up rarely.  However when it did, it was a breath of fresh air.  

Wendy