Happy Mother's Day

Well, it's the day after Mother's Day and I didn't get this blog post done

in time but I think I'll go ahead and post it anyway.  It's a little picture

story about my own mom.  I tried to find a picture of just me and my mom

but actually could not find one, except when I was a newborn.  I remember we had a Brownie camera

and probably took about 24 pictures A YEAR and then had to wait to get the film developed for about another year so pictures were not a big priority!

The first set of pictures is of her birth

family.  She's the little girl in the front row with the little dutch boy haircut.

The next picture is of her and her mother, my Grandma Stock....

a rare photo of the 2 of them.  There wasn't much time or

money for photos when she was a girl.

Here she is as a young mother herself

with my dad and their 4 kids.  That's me

with the goofy hairdo on the right hand side

wearing what appears to be something

nautical.  Maybe it was Mother's Day.

It looks to be early spring.

Skip ahead a few years to my folks' 50th wedding

anniversary and 4 grown children.

Then, here we are the last time we were all together

for something joyous...Jesse's wedding in Aug, 06.

Shortly after this photo, Dad's cancer was back

and he died in November of that year.  But on

this day we were all pretty relaxed and happy.

Now her life revolves around her time in AZ for 6 months

and her time in MN with her great grandchildren.  Here

she and Everleigh are reading a story.  They both love it!

 Mom,

Thanks for investing so much of yourself

in your family.  Thanks for hanging

in there with all of us.  Thanks

for all the cookies, the mending

and just knowing you are there.

Happy Mother's Day!