Happy Birthday Mom!

Today is my mother’s 79th birthday. Or it would have been had she not passed right before her 74th birthday. My usual celebration is to get dolled up in all her jewelry and finery and go out somewhere nice for dinner – only right now I can’t afford it because of a beach trip I’m taking in a couple of days – so I’m going to just channel her all day and try to find that calm she seemed to exude (even though inside she was a ball of nerves).

Today is going on the third week that Tin has been out of school and I’ve been operating with pretty much no back up. All hail single parents!

My mother wasn’t a single parent, but I know that having my dad was sometimes like having one more volatile situation to deal with – so all hail my mother for dealing with so much all the time.

In the meantime, I miss you mom – I wanted you to be a grandmother to my child – we missed that opportunity. However, I celebrate everything else. Love you.

Celebrate

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