Do Your Children Resemble You?

[AnnaMarie]

When I was a preteen (many moons ago) I found a picture. I took it to my dad to ask about it. There was a nun on one side of a barred window. On the other side was an old man and a young girl about my age. I recognized the young girl...it was my sister.

I went to ask my dad, who is the old man with my sister and why is this nun in jail. Before I asked, he looked at the picture and asked me "when did you meet your grandfather?" I never met him, he may have been dead before I was born....we argued about who the young girl was. My mom walked in, swore at us in French and said it was a picture of HER, and her dad, visiting her oldest sister at the convent.

Now, a picture of my youngest son could easily be mistaken for a picture of me at his age. (Except his skin is clearer.

 

[AnnaMarie]

And I should probably explain that my aunt, the nun, was not in jail. Back then, at least in the convent she was in, a man could not be in the same room as a nun. There had to be a wall between them with bars on the window.

 

[Walter Oobleck]

Hulga looks a lot like my 5th wife while the twin boys, Josh and Caleb are a split between my 3rd wife and me. The triplets now, they take after their mother, my first wife, Gretchen, Eeenie Meanie and Moe their names. They've been accepted to Harvard but they've opted for Pelkie Technological School of Hay Baling and Moon Glowing. Didn't have any children with my 2nd and 4th wives. I think I'm good with my 6th wife...but no more kids, alas although the milkman is looking a tad guilty every time I say hey. And Buffy the dog gives me that sheepish tail wag, hang head look when I get back from the mill. Oy.

 

[pegasus216]

Hulga looks a lot like my 5th wife while the twin boys, Josh and Caleb are a split between my 3rd wife and me. The triplets now, they take after their mother, my first wife, Gretchen, Eeenie Meanie and Moe their names. They've been accepted to Harvard but they've opted for Pelkie Technological School of Hay Baling and Moon Glowing. Didn't have any children with my 2nd and 4th wives. I think I'm good with my 6th wife...but no more kids, alas although the milkman is looking a tad guilty every time I say hey. And Buffy the dog gives me that sheepish tail wag, hang head look when I get back from the mill. Oy.

Walter, what the hell is wrong with you?? hahahahahahahha

 

[mal]

My son looks almost exactly like me. It was years later I found out he was the milkman's boy.

 

[Grandpa]

My kids look like each other, which destroyed my accusations of questionable paternity, because they were born in California, Colorado, and overseas, so unless there's some rake following us around, they've all got the same dad (me), and if there was someone following us around that persistently, he deserves the fruits of the labor.

Anyway, yeah, my kids have some traits of me, but they are all good-looking kids, and they get that from their mom. I am so not kidding.

 

[HollyGolightly]

Hulga looks a lot like my 5th wife while the twin boys, Josh and Caleb are a split between my 3rd wife and me. The triplets now, they take after their mother, my first wife, Gretchen, Eeenie Meanie and Moe their names. They've been accepted to Harvard but they've opted for Pelkie Technological School of Hay Baling and Moon Glowing. Didn't have any children with my 2nd and 4th wives. I think I'm good with my 6th wife...but no more kids, alas although the milkman is looking a tad guilty every time I say hey. And Buffy the dog gives me that sheepish tail wag, hang head look when I get back from the mill. Oy.

You get around a bit, eh?

 

[blunthead]

I look nothing like any of my relatives by choice, in hopes of saving them the embarrassment. I resemble King Kong and Quasimodo.

 

[CrimsonKingAH]

interesting walter.. lol

 

[Walter Oobleck]

The children by the concubines now, that's a whole other ballpark.

 

[Kurben]

Well, i do know that my brother is incredibly alike my father. He was adopted so did not meet him until we were both grownups and he took contact again. It was amazing how alike my father and he was in face, gestures, taste, talk and they even had the same kind of beard. It is all in the genes...... I mean, my parents did not bring him up but he still liked the same thing as my family do, sf, history, books, movies, science. One thing only... he did not inherit our love of old movies. If its older than 1970 you have to force him to watch them. His wife loves old movies so he says he feels relieved when i visit since i can speak about them and enjoy them together with her.