Well today is my most precious mother's birthday. Still weird but how can I not also rejoice? I again have to remind myself that my mom was taken from a world of pain and brought into the loving and wonderful arms of God and that will always be something I can be thankful for. One thing I can laugh about now is that my mom died right before her 50th birthday, let me tell you that woman's biggest fear was becoming 'an old fart'. There were multiple occasions when we were shopping around where she would see an old lady sweater or something and she'd point at it and whisper ever so seriously, "If I ever start to wear something like that, stop me." So happy birthday to the most fantastic woman I was blessed to be able to call my mommy.
Memory #60
As of right now I can't really think of any particular memories I have of my mom's birthday. She was the party planner out of the family and also I wasn't around for any of the major birthdays that you're supposed to celebrate in style. In my family birthdays are celebrated by going out to eat to wherever you wanted to go and then my mom's mom would usually invite everyone over and she'd make you a cake. Lots of family fun but nothing really stands out in my memory currently. Maybe one day something will stand out to me but for now the thing that popped into my brain is something that she did for Sambo's Birthday. It was something small and silly and shouldn't be something that is so prevalent in my brain but it's something that both Sam and I still think about sometimes. So we were having a family birthday and my mom had bought some candles, but not just normal candles to indicate how old you are. She bought fancy candles that spelled out Happy Birthday. So my grandmother brought out the cake that Sam had requested and my mom got to work on putting the candles on. I don't have the original picture but basically my mom decided that Happy Birthday was too over done so she rearranged the letters to say Happy Birdy Hat. Why? I will never know but it was hilarious to us and we continued on the tradition. This was for the first birthday Sam had that my mom wasn't there and I guess I felt compelled to bring some normalcy to the day.
Love Always,
Erin
The word for your mom is "Extraordinary" definitely nothing ordinary about her. Also there was a bit of rebel in her! against the status quo.
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