The celebration of my birthday started yesterday with a little celebration at our staff meeting. I arrived to find flowers at my desk and my favorite salad from the local cafe as lunch for everyone. This was of course followed by cake – chocolate cake (my Mom made me chocolate cake every year as it was my unwavering favorite). My husband surprised me with a gift plan – some for my birthday eve and some for the next morning. We then finished the day off with dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, Alegria. It’s downtown near where we used to live and we rarely get over there anymore. We reminisced about old times, as did my Mom and I when I called her today. This all led to me searching for the photo of my Mom and I eating at Alegria seven years ago when we were celebrating both my birthday and my graduation from Cal State Long Beach.
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Mom and Aging 2.0
I knew it would not be easy to accompany my mom on the journey of “getting old.” She has always been an ultra-independent person. When someone talks about a parent’s frequent requests for help, I can’t even imagine. My mom avoids asking me for help like the plague and seems to be enduring a form of … Read more
Bethyl’s Blog
Guest Blogger: My mother has started “blogging” via email and this is her post for yesterday which seems an interesting follow-up to my “Hands” post: Today is my mother’s birthday. Alice Ardena Erickson Davis. December 13, 1887 – August 3, 1980. She was 40 when I, her fifth and last child, was born in 1927. … Read more
Happy 80th Birthday Mom!
I’m writing from the Pacific Southwest District Annual Assembly in Riverside, CA where I’m having a great time so far. However, my thoughts are with my mother who turned 80 today in South Carolina – so far away! I managed to put together a gift basket and get it in the mail in time, which if you know me was a big accomplishment. I filled it with goodies including little chocolates that my mother likes to have after dinner, a yummy smelling candle and to make it a “turning 80” theme I added a box of “Senior Memory Mints.” (I could actually use memory mints myself!)