Good Morning Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Good Morning World!

Today is my mother’s birthday!  She would have been 100 today!  Happy Birthday mom!

My mom!

I started thinking about this when Dick and I were painting my place on Saturday.  He mentioned my mom and we were trying to figure out when she was born.  I said I thought she was 35 when I was born so that would have been 1915 since I was born in 1950 – I know a lady never tells her age, but what the heck!  Anyway, I started thinking about that and I have a beautiful picture of her in a “ball gown” and I have a nifty scanner at my house so I decided to scan the picture and it turned out great.  Of course I put it on FB this morning for the world to see!  I also put this picture on FB:

Aunt Pat, Mom, Aunt Peg and me

My mom was really a wonderful person.  She was the disciplinarian in the house.  Dad was at work and mom had her hands full with 3 kids.  Of course I was the good one and my brothers were the bad ones!  Actually, we had a pretty happy home.  Bill and Jon would fight once in a while and mom would tell them to take it to the back yard so the neighbors wouldn’t hear or see them fighting.  I remember growing up in a neighborhood where you could ride your bike all over town and never worry about anything.  I remember walking to “Albrecht’s Store” and buying candy.   All we needed to do was listen for the “bell” on the back porch and know it was time to come in for dinner.   There was a bird farm at the end of our street across West Avenue where there were peacocks that would crow all day long.  I remember wild pheasant’s coming to our bird feeder in the back yard – the whole family – daddy first then the mother and kids.  And of course I remember our dog Trigger:

I must have been around 5.

I had a pretty normal childhood.  Growing up in Darien, Connecticut was a pretty nice privilege.  It was a white collar town and mostly “white”.  I went to an elementary school named Hollow Tree (it’s an “old folks home” now), then to Junior High School at Middlesex, and on to Darien High School.  Let’s not forget 6th grade at “the Annex”.  That was before they decided what to do with 6th grade and created our “middle schools” now.

It’s also Becky’s birthday.  She is 45 – I could actually be her mother, but let’s not go there.  Here is Becky (in the middle).

Becky in the Middle

Becky is our Activities Director and she does an “outstanding” job!  She is so talented and so creative!  We are so lucky to have her working with us.  It makes my job a lot of fun because I get to hear the activities from my desk and on Fridays at 3:30 there is “music”.  That is the way I get to end my week and day.  I love that program on Fridays and so do our residents.  Becky has some great entertainers booked and there is also the monthly “Birthday Celebration” and the monthly “Cocktail Party”.  Orchid Terrace is really a great place to live and work!

Well, I’ve used up the allotted time this morning – it’s on to work and other things.  Have a great day today and thanks for stopping by!