Looking Back

Today is my mother’s birthday. Here is a picture taken at her 75th birthday in Kelowna, a months and a half after my father died. 

At the table with Terry and me are her brother Stan and his wife Pat. (Stan celebrated his 90th birthday a few months ago…)

Born in 1919 - 103 years ago - my mother lived long enough to meet my granddaughter, her first great-granddaughter. She already had four great-grandsons in Texas, my brother’s grandchildren.

Here is another birthday picture of her - in her 90’s, with my daughter - when she lived here in Ottawa. When I think of her, moving across the country (from British Columbia to Ontario) in her 80’s, I realize how adaptable she was until the end.