Josh’s yearbooks
Grade 7 1990 Grade 8 1991 Grade 9 1992 Grade 10 1993
Gale Smith
Cartoons on fridge when Josh was teenager
Dueling cartoons I was the first to stick this one on the refrigerator door. When I read it in the paper I thought it was the perfect cartoon to describe the mental state of my son at the age of 14 or 15 or any other teenager for that matter. I thought it was terribly […]
Blizzard 1978 in Ohio and Michigan
Josh wasn’t quite 1 and Erik was days short of being 2 when the blizzard hit in 1978. Stacey wasn’t going to be born until that April so that meant Sandi was pregnant at the time of the blizzard. We were living out in the country and were snowed in with an 18 foot drift […]
Cartoon from 6/22/77
I’ve been going through all the things I saved when Josh was a baby and will be posting those as I get them scanned. I found this cartoon I saved when Josh was only 3 months old because the truth of it struck me so deeply. Children look up at adults and think they are […]
Josh’s Birth – hospital documents, etc
Take a look at the hospital bill. I was allowed to stay for 5 days and it cost a total of $1,622.90. That’s as amazing as the bill my mom kept from my birth compared to today’s standards. [wpdm_file id=23]
Gale senior yearbook
Another post just for me. I threw out the yearbook so this is my only copy of the photos and signatures in it.
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