Tag Archives: Great-Aunt Molly

May 12th, 2017

At Mother’s Day tea 1 of 2, Des shows his present off to Eleanor. She appears less than impressed, though mom loved it.

Silly faces, though the best “stick your tongue out” Des could muster

The monumental event this week was aunt Kellie, uncle Mike and Calvin moving from Iowa City to Omaha. Assisting the move, great-aunt Molly also gets to meet Eleanor for the first time.

Calvin showing off the new attic play area, as well as the fire engine’s features

Des still has no clue why he’s putting these round things in a box, despite mom and dad’s best efforts to explain

Decorah, part 3

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Three generations: David Irving, Desmond Irving, Irving Anthony

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Pit stop in Ankeny, Hawkeye Park

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Driving by 1311 W. 1st St, Dad’s second house until age five and moving to Council Bluffs

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…shared a room with great Aunt Molly, helped put her belt on, dug a hole through the basement room wall with the door stop (Mom patched for the umpteenth time before moving), walking to the library with pond, my dear blanket, drank koolaid and ate popcorn w/ ketchup while mom was pregnant (and mint chocolate ice cream), met my sister, learned how to ride a bike, Mr. Good, watched Dan Rathers while eating Mac & Cheese, corn and fish sticks, picnicked out back with Kellie and wicker paper plate trays, eating frozen grapes, big wheel parade, annual broadcast of the Wizard of Oz on TV, Kellie stuck under the TV cart, first Halloween costumes, vacuum cleaner, bouncy rocking horse, picking grapes from the bushes, played with Jason England’s Star Wars figures (“lost” during the move to CB), rode several blocks west to Jason’s house on a big wheel, asking mom if we were taking a nap to determine the feasibility of sneaking upstairs to watch TV while she was sleeping

A boy reunited with his dog

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Decorah, part 1

On June 7th, 2015, we drove from Iowa City to Decorah to visit our (great) grandparents. Dad, Mom, Desmond, and Grandma Anne had just traveled to Iowa City to celebrate Calvin’s fourth birthday. It was Desmond’s first road trip and he slept all the way to Decorah.

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Aunt Kellie and Calvin re-enact a game great aunt Molly first taught us as kids: telephone with the pantry beads.

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Dad and aunt Kellie also spent many happy hours playing pool on trips to visit great Grandma and Grandpa.

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Aunt Kellie and great grandpa Irv

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Desi and Cal

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Des and Molly

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Great grandma Jane and grandpa Irv’s 60th anniversary

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Iowa City, part 1

Traveling over to Iowa City for Calvin’s fourth birthday, Desi taking a break at his first I-80 rest stop.

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Aunt Kellie and cousin Calvin picking us up at the hotel before heading to North Liberty

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Dad entertaining the troops

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Meeting great aunt Molly

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Visiting uncle/chef Mike

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Dad and Cal assembling some pirate legos

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