Blog of Orange County photographer, Tara Whitney. Features client sneak peeks and sessions, the "check it" section (where Tara shares her favorite things found online), and personal stories from her life as a woman and mother of four.
your mom comes home from target and shows you your new shirts.
you are pretty stoked over them actually, showing off to your sisters.
“these are cool! thanks mom!”
you put them on, marching around, rubbing your hands all over your stomachs.
when suddenly, you look at each other, then at me, point to the design on the tshirt, and say,
“but what are these?”
- Hahaha, but even kids of the nineties know what those are!
- HAH!
- I recently asked a friend when was the last time they made a mix tape. - Just the other day, they replied. - Really? With a cassette tape and everything? - Oh. Uh, no. I really miss those things.
- You know you are not a child of the eighties when you actually like something your Mum bought for you,lol. Love the tees, ah, so many memories.
- Oh man... my kids wouldn't know what those are either!
- lol. cool tees.
- No way! Say it isn't so! They didn't know what they were...Ha! Man, i'm old...... CUTE T's! A target JUST opened 5 min. away from me. HAPPY DAY!!!
- Oh, this is very cute! Big fan of your blog but I don't think I have ever left a comment - I will have to make a trip to Target very soon ! thanks for the share!
- Now, that's funny! I can picture it too. That makes it even funnier. Loving those shirts and the boys. but I haven't looked in that section. Jake needs clothes so badly. Perhaps a trip to Target is in order. love ya
- I feel SO old.
- Thats Awesome!!!
- OMG, that is so hilarious. I used to have one of those gigantic boomboxes in 8th grade.. and I still have all the tapes filled w/ songs recorded off the radio... =D
- funny! I was just talking to my husband yesterday about how I was 6 when my family got a VCR and he was like 15 when they came out. I also remember having a microwave when they first came out too. makes you feel old, doesn't it?
- Oh my goodness! That one made me LOL! They seriously don't know what they are? Quick! Head to your nearest thrift store and pick up a tape of Cindy Lauper or Duran Duran! They must be educated...or not!
- That is the BEST ever!
- LOL!! that is too funny!
- ah yes, boom boxes and cassette tapes...takes me right back. i'll never forget when i was in 7th grade, walking along with my boom box jammin'. the handle broke, and my beloved boom box hit the sidewalk and busted to pieces. tragic day in my life, lol! cool tees!!
- Ok do you remember when you would sit there with your hand hovering over the record button waiting for the dj to play "the song" you were waiting for??? too cool. love the shirts and your kiddos!
- oh how funny! i'm definitely a child of the 80s and my DS wouldn't have a clue what those are either. :):)does that mean i'm getting old? :)
- LOL! That's hilarious. I love those shirts!
- LMAO.....oh dude, I am a child of the early 70's! I had my Michael Jackson and Donna Summer on record.... Those shirts (and the kids who are wearing them) ROCK!
- I love them! We had a yard sale last week and while going through drawers and cabinets looking for things to sell I found a box of my old mix tapes! My kids and I have been rocking out to them all week in the car (which thank goodness has both the CD and tape player!)! So fun!!!
- Oh Tara that is SOOOO funny and adorable! My husband just got back from Target darn!!! ETA: Do you know one of the best things though about the new technology? I spent YEARS of my childhood rewinding tapes and trying to write down lyrics only to be singing the wrong songs until computers came along and I could actually look up lyrics and see what I SHOULD have been singing!
- this cracked me up. i can just imagine their confusion... thanks for the laugh!
- hahahaha that is great!
- LOL. I love it :) P.S - What are the dates for the "Find Yourself" trip? I doubt I can make it since I have a million frickin' shoots until mid-December, but just thought I would ask. Damn....and Thailand is my DREAM vacation spot :( Arrgh.
- lol - too funny!
- those are so cool Tara!!!
- I had to laugh because I just bought my son the shirt with the old Atari controllers on it & he had the same reaction!
- Those are EXCELLANT shirts! Do they come in a 3? hehe. WE still listen to tapes in our car, Kaya thinks they are hilarious, we like to think we're bringin him up old school
- OMG!!! That's soooo funny. Ha ha ha...do they even make cassettes any more??
- OMG I feel soo old now. :P
- it's after 1:00 in the morning here and I am laughing way too loud, but I can't help it, THAT was awesome!!
- that is SO true!! My kids don't even recognize a VHS. Your kids look awesome. I LOVE the processing on these.
- Those are little plastic slices of heaven. They allowed you to record music off the radio, and.. you had to be super quick with the PAUSE button on Record/Play otherwise you got the announcers voice. ha. If it was entirely announcer free you could proudly present it at school for your friend to borrow and copy.. I remember being crushed when my friend recorded over A with her B.. no wonder I no longer speak to her! ha. Hey.. maybe she is on facebook? thanks for the laugh Tara!
- that is so funny! as my husband and i were just listening to the presidential debates on the radio tonight, our kids were looking at their stereo (which usually only plays their lullabies at night), and wondering how that other sound was coming out. they don't even know what the radio is, with cd's and ipods these days! great shirts!
- OH. MY. GOSH!!! i'm offically OLD!!!! LOL!! this gave me such a laugh, i had to show my hubby, who also had a good laugh :) i can't believe it!
- holy crap that makes me feel old!!!
- ROLLING. seriously rolling.
- that is just wrong! :)
- i live in okinawa, japan right now. while we were at an off-base salon getting pedicures, my 6-year-old daughter picked up a postcard promoting a dj at a local club. It was in the shape of a record. she lifted it up and loudly asked, "what is THIS?" every woman in the place laughed hysterically. back in the states my husband was deployed and we'd make videos for him. she demanded to see the video right away so i grabbed the input cable and plugged the camcorder into the tv. she was getting impatient, "i wanna see it NOW!" "hold on, baby - i have to rewind first!" "......what's rewind?" yeah, you and your dvd-watching ipod-listening self wouldn't have any clue, would you?? love this. love the shirts. love YOU, tara!!
- *giggles*
- i totally am not old (but maybe am in denial) and was sad to hear this. when i was in h.s. a teacher of mine told me that her son didn't know what tapes were (what?). i was still using them in my car. nuts. i could understand records at that point- my dad was heavily into them, so i was kind of a rare person who actually USED them regularly (sort of- i was pretty young, and there was a no-touching rule :) ha) so funny that they liked something they didn't even know what it was.
- OMG so funny. What a great story!
- Uf! That makes me feel that 3 in front of my age a little more. Adorable none the less.
- Oh my...we are soooo dated girl...hahahahaha!!! :)
- LOL! that's hilarious!!!!!!! those boys are TOO CUTE! tara
- Too funny that they did not know what "they" were!!!
- That's hilarious. When I was a kid, it was embarassing to wear "Target clothes." Now I can't live without that store.
- Hey - Drew and I are twins!!! I bought the same shirt recently. hee. Your boys are gorgeous! Hope they're doing great in school, etc.
- That is too funny, we had the same conversation the other day in Target.
- hilarious! luke has the same shirt as nate...love target!
- Oh my gosh! That's hilarious!
- I was actually thinking of buying myself that cassette tape shirt... gotta love the eighties!
- thats hysterical!
- numerous years ago - my much younger brother-in-law was with us (his brother/my husband) and asked, "what's a record?" nothing like making you feel a tad old!! cute post - especially the way you worded it. My kids ask me, 'mommy, what was your favorite DS game when you were little?" my reply always amazes them. "Mommy didn't have electric games growing up - I had to play outside with my friends".
- Hahahaha!! Awesome shirts!
- Whatever you do, don't get them a shirt with an LP or 8track on it!!!!!
- oh my gosh...i feel so OLD.
- HA! That's funny!
- OMGosh! this made me laugh! thanks I needed it today. Great shirts, I am sure I will be purchasing those soon for my teenage boys.
- HAHA!!! nice! cant wait to show my kids my cassette tapes, kinda like 8tracks with my mom. LOL!!
- too funny! my niece and nephew were the same way about a rubix cube! LOL!
- ha! love it! my kids saw a record album and thought it was a giant cd!
- OMG that's hillarious!! Wow I feel old!
- HA! LOL hehe "But what are these?" Oh geez
- LOL. I bought the boombox shirt for my son- love it!
- LOL!!!!!
- LOL - priceless. Hillary
- Oh my gosh, this made me laugh so hard! Say it ain't so!
- That is too funny! I was at a yard sale this weekend and there was a whole bunch of tapes that were like .10 cents a piece..."what a steal I thought to myself" and then I thought about how I would listen to them...darn I-pod, wouldn't even be able to get them on there ;)
- that's awesome!
- LOL! Too funny (and scary)!
- They don't know what they're missing! Too funny, Tara.
- dang!
- oh that's so sad. :-)
- This post has made my day. Thanks!
- **spew spit on screen**
- tooooooo funny. Kids these days eh???
- HAHAHAHA, I didn't expect that as I was reading, hahaha...great!
- I hear ya! I just posted on my blog yesterday about going to the hospital to have my 11 year old, and how I brought my portable cd player (pre-ipod) and my phone cards (pre-cell phone) to call people from the hospital phone! Things change SO FAST.....
- ha ha too funny. Reminds me when I sent my Grade One student into the office to call his mom. He came back and said he didn't know how to dial the phone (it was an ancient rotary one).
- haha.....this make me feel really old now :-) I can only imagine what my 4yr old daughter will say to make me feel old when she is their age...can't wait!
- OMg.... just about the funniest thing I've read in a while.
- I am going to Target tomorrow. That red one is fabulous.
- LMAO!! You can always make me crack up when I least expect it!!!!!
- I adore this post! It just makes me smile---and the shots are great too! Lovely, funny story... : )
- LOL! TOoo funny! My friends daughter who was about 10 at the time was ecstatic over her God mother's record collection, only she called them BIG BLACK CDS!!!!!!!!! This happened about 10 years ago!
- This is so true and funny... good to know... this is sure coming my way :)
- Very cool.
- LOL! Love that. Ok seriously our children will never know the joys of having to wind the cassette with your finger because the stupid tape player tried to "eat your cassette" Good times...they don't know what they are missing.
- Your Target gets much cooler things than ours. I did end up finding the rolling backpack and got it on clearance even. Thanks for always inspiring-my son thanks you, too. :)
- SHUT UP! Tell me this did not happen. How does life pass so quickly? How am I THIS old??
- Everyone loves new shirts! Can't tell you how many times this has happened to me...
- hahahaha!!!
- THAT is FUNNY! It never occured to me that our kids don't know what cassette tapes are.....or BOOM BOXES! Ah, sweet memories.
- Oh, my. It is official. I'm old.
by Tara Whitney
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