I said I'd do it, I just didn't say when

A long long long long long time ago, back in March even, I promised Mad a ten-photo autobiography. Here it is, because I finally tracked down the cds with the photos on them, but...! I don't appear to have any photos backed up from Frances's infancy. Erik must have them. It stinks. So the autobiography abruptly ends about five years ago.

1. This is why I always say Frances doesn't look like me--because this is not what she looked like as a baby.

2. In the middle, with my big cousin S who I adored, and we were wearing matching dresses that my grandmother made us.

3. With my brother, in the brief span of years he was actually shorter than me.

4. Early highschool, with a Certain Reader of the blog, soaking wet after going on timberwolf falls at Canada's Wonderland. I spent a lot of my highschool summers there. I was probably about fifteen in this photo.

5. At the Casino night at the french school in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec. In this one, I'm 18.

6. Frances is in there, you just can't see her yet. (4 months) Plus, I know it looks like the perspective is wonky, or Erik and I are tiny, but I am 5'7" and wearing heels. My brother and his wife are just that tall. They now have a baby who is turning one in July and is, no lie, already heavier than Frances is at 4 1/2. We're meeting L for the first time in two weeks at his birthday party, and I can't wait to take a picture of the two of them together.

7. Me, 6 months pregnant on the top of Vesuvius in Italy. That was fun. I would have been 28.

(Invisible Photos)

8. Me in the hospital with Frances before they discharged her. Isn't she cute? Look at the pumpkin-orange skin and the pumpkin-round head and that ridiculously tiny yellow preemie outfit with the bonnet! Look at all that hair! Just ignore the tubes and wires, please.

9. Me at the Motherlode conference in October 2006. (Was it 2006?)

10. Divorce certificate, which I am still waiting to get in the mail but which was, according to the lawyer, granted in early June. (Have I mentioned that it takes forever in Ontario? Did you know that you must be legally separated for a year before you are allowed to be divorced? I know couples who were separated for longer than they were married. What is the point of this?) I'm hoping to get this piece of paper sometime this year, at which point I'll scan some portion of it and put it up.

(By the way, I haven't had any spam comments on the blog since sometime yesterday morning, and although I've had real comments posted since then it's making me nervous enough to say that if you're trying to use the comments form and it's not working, you can email me at andrea@andreamcdowell.com.)

Posted by Andrea at July 15, 2008 8:37 AM under Me

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