Saturday, May 22, 2010

MAMA MILLIE MOMENTS




At different times in my blog, I would like to introduce posts referred to as MAMA MILLIE MOMENTS. I will be sharing memories, sad, happy, funny, whatever about MAMA MILLIE, my Mother. We all have those times we can remember about our Mothers. You will get some idea about who my mother was and hear about different times she especially was a true one of a kind. So enough said, MAMA MILLIE'S, birth name is Miroslavka Vosecky,but referred to as MILLIE, as her name was so difficult to pronounce. She was born in Czechoslovakia in 1923. Her parents were poor, the children went to work at an early age,14. Whatever money they made it went to their parents.Mother worked as a maid. Times were tough in Europe, WW II. one day, my uncle brought a soldier to Mother's home. Mother said she saw this soldier, he was 5ft.3 she was 5t. 6. She said she would never care for a man shorter than herself.Well, sometimes, you have to eat your words. One month, after this soldier met Millie, they married, so now DAD is taking his bride to America. Mother spoke no English. Dad, wasn,t into teaching, so while listening to the radio, Mother learned English. No idea of what she was listening. Mother and Dad were poor with very little home items. Mom worked as a maid, made $5 A DAY. Dad worked in a steel mill. I, will never forget THE GOLDEN WHEAT PATTERN. A laundry co. offered different dish items (GOLDEN WHEAT)in various boxes. Mother was determined to complete a full 8 place dinnerware set. Oh! how my sister and I had to purchase the laundry detergent with this dish set, returning a box back to the store if we got the wrong box and we had enough of cups, whatever. We hated to be responsible to add up all of the boxes to complete this most coveted set. To this day, my sister and I will never forget the GOLDEN WHEAT DISH SET. Any time I see this old pattern , I could not but have a chuckle. Times have changed, thank goodness children don,t have to worry about THE GOLDEN WHEAT DISH SET. Do you have a childhood memory of your Mother that pops into your head? Oh! we completed the set, no idea where it went. Look for more MAMA MILLIE MOMENTS in the future. I

16 comments:

  1. Precious post my friend. Loved the soap/dishes story.

    I have a few of my own...:)

    Thanks for visiting me today and Happy Pink Saturday.

    Love, Rebecca

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  2. What a great memory! That generation was so hard working and to come to this country not speaking the language and make a life for themselves and raise wonderful children is what makes them the "greatest generation"...my Mom was born here but her parents came from Greece with nothing and also made a life..I have a ton of great memories of my Mom too...some very funny that I need to write down so they aren't forgotten. Wonderful Post Rose!

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  3. Good happy Saturday morning to you Rose!!! I really appreciated this most heartwarming beautiful tribute to your mother.

    Let me know when you post more...I'd love to keep up with this.

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  4. I think it is neat that you are doing moments like this sharing the memories of your mom. I think it is amazing she learned English by listening to the radio. glad the set of dishes got completed too!

    looking forward to reading more

    betty

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  5. Love the post. It's interesting to connect people and stories with items.
    Mary

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  6. I love hearing about peoples backgrounds and their history. You can tell a lot about a person if you know where they came from! Fun post!

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  7. Loved this story about your mom. :)

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  8. Thanks for the comment on my Days End post...her name is Alexis and she is almost 9 now. She was 5 in that photo. Our angel girl.

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  9. Hi Rose!!

    I know you are new at this, so I went ahead and added you to the Follow Friday List!!

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  10. Very sweet post about your Mom and the dishes. I was in Eastern Europe and I can imagine your Mom there and meeting a soldier during WWII. Very romantic during a difficult period of WWII. Keep the Millie posts coming.
    Joyce

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  11. This was just a wonderful post! I really enjoyed learning more about your mom, and I wonder if you'd mind if I borrowed the idea and did some posts on my Mom. Actually, I have done some posts on my Dad, and maybe one or so on my Mom in my Country Grammy's Walk With God blog.

    This was just so interesting. I love learning about new people that I hope to become friends with!

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  12. Rose, What a wonderful story about your mom and from the sounds of your description Mama Millie will be providing some very interesting stories in the future. She was brave to come to this country, so young and unable to speak the language.

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  13. Hi Rose,

    I loved your post. I love old stories too hope you will post more in the future. Have a lovely evening!!

    Crystal

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  14. We really have it easy today, don't we? Although in some countries life still resembles those days.

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  15. Sweet Post. Can't wait to read more. My memory of my mum (shes still alive) is whenever I would get sick she'd make this homemade hot lemonade drink.. it was so good and would put me to sleep like a baby!

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  16. thank you everyone. i plan to do a post on my mother each week as long as i can put memories on my blog.

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