Mom's Wig

This LO is about my mom and her wigs in 1966. That's me in the blue (8 months pregnant), my mom and my MIL. I was pregnant with Cindi, and that's her in the playpen 1 year later, in 1967.

Only items not from the AMR kits are the pink Bazzill, transparancy, polka dot pp is DCWV and flowers are RAKS & Mikes, Mike's stamps. The journaling explains the whole story. TFL

Journaling reads:

Mom’s Wig…
I was pregnant with Cindi when I found out mom had terminal cancer.
I was in my 6th month when I heard the news. The picture shows me
at 8 months with mom, Etta, in the center and my mother-in-law,
Bette. A friend had a baby shower for me and made sure mom was
strong enough to come. Mom is wearing a wig and you have to realize
back in the mid 1960s the wigs were all synthetic and you bought
one-size-fits-all styles. This wig was her ‘going out in public wig’ and
of course it didn’t have a tight fit.

One day she had taken the Greyhound bus from the San Francisco
Bay Area to Lake Tahoe so she could gamble. Gambling was her
‘escape’ from the cancer. This day it was very windy and she was
walking across the street to another casino and “Swish!” Her wig
went flying off her head. She picked it up and put it on and walked
on as proud as could be. That was my mom, a very proud woman.
Her ‘casual wig’ wasn’t really a wig, but a wide headband with some
fluffy yarn/stuff that she combed back to make it look like hair.

That’s my daughter Cindi (11 months old) in the playpen wearing the
‘casual wig.’ This picture was taken about one month before mom
passed away. The following month, six days after Cindi’s first birthday
and four days after mine, she died. It’s as if she waited for Cindi to
have her first birthday. We had the birthday party at her house as
she was lying on the couch watching, still wearing her wig.