On the day this photo was taken Vanessa’s mother had to get out of the house. It had been an unusually bad day. She’d spent the week in turmoil neglecting her children while caring for her ailing mother. She’d decided to take Nessy for a treat because it seemed when she was busy Nessy suffered most.
Caring for her mother while simultaneously raising her children, without the proper help of a nanny, was exhausting. Her husband’s business was not as profitable as it was back in the day and so she was forced to care for the house and the children by herself. With her mother now ill, there were no generational safety nets.
Each day brought new challenges yet on this day it all came into focus when she fought mightily with her husband. She walked out of the house in a huff with little Nessy on her right hip. She and Nessy walked for the 10 blocks and played games and talked and sauntered their way to the ice cream shop, where their favorite ice cream was sold in little cones.
Normally Nessy’s mother was uncomfortable with the children eating ice cream because of the mess it made but not this day. This day she’d realized how much she missed the undivided attention she’d been able to spend with the children and especially her youngest that she threw all caution (of clean clothing) to the wind.
They giggled together on the bench next to the ice cream shop about the drips of ice cream on little Nessy’s white dress and the unusually bad day turned around.
Nickle cones in 1935 and chocolate if you must know.
Written by Julia Roberts, Kidneys and Eyes
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