Today would have been our mother's
103rd birthday.
She had 90 of them on earth.
She was so very intelligent and logical, fun loving,
and highly energetic it was sometimes hard to keep up with her.
But in her final years
Parkinson's slowed her mind and body and words to a standstill.
But we remember the summers at Cannon Beach,
the fairly elaborate birthday parties and Christmas and all of those
wild children's stories she would embellish, substituting neighbors and all their quirks for the main characters, making those stories way more interesting.
We had to promise not to tell them to the neighbors, though.
What a great mom!
ReplyDelete