Ghost of Christmas Past

I had totally forgotten about this old photo. My sister recently scanned a bunch of old family pics and posted this on her FaceBook wall this week. My mother had it in her photo album for over forty years. My best guess is that this was taken in 1966, so it would have been sometime around my seventh birthday. From left to right these are my cousins, Charles (whose birthday is Christmas Eve) and John, my sister Nancy, my brother Eric and last but not least, me.

The older siblings must have bailed on this photo op. You can tell from the look on my face that I wasn't totally buying the Santa thing by then, but went along with it anyway, just in case.