Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Happy Birthday to Mom

Get ready. This is a busy week in our family for birthdays, starting out on the 23rd with my Mom. She was raised on a country farm with two brothers and two sisters. At the age of 17, shortly after graduating from high school she married Dad. Together they raised three daughters.

Service has been a large part of her life. When I was a young girl she was a Pink Lady at our local hospital and donated many hours of her time. After retiring she returned to volunteering, this time serving as the President a couple of times and also many years on the Board of Directors. I'm not sure but I believe she has about 55 years and a gazillion hours logged in to the Auxiliary.

Mom also has dedicated her life to her family. During a particularly tough time in my life Mom and Dad were there to pick up the pieces, offer support and to help me raise Athena and Eris. I will be forever grateful for that.

The phases of her life have all included children, and even now she is dedicated to her seven grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. They all love to visit "Grandmama's house".

Thanks Mom, for everything. See ya at the pool in the morning!

I love you!

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4 comments:

Eris said...

Favorite Grandma story: After she had injured her back (surgery, maybe?) we were working on a jigsaw puzzle in the kitchen when Grandpa came in and said, "Are we ready to go get the firewood?" Grandma's response? "Darrell have you got a turd in your pocked?"

Ha! I love that saying, but it doesn't come in handy as often as you might think.

Happy Birthday Grandma!!

Sharyn Mallow Woerz said...

Beautiful mum! KalamaQuilts

Goddess said...

Thank you for leaving these fun insights to a person I have been wanting to become reacquainted with.

Our Mom didn't understand the lovely gift you left for her, but I did. I enjoyed your blogs a LOT!

Karen said...

I missed her birthday so happy belated! I'll catch up with her next week.

I love the photos and I can see a lot of you in the first photo :-) Precious!