Our family has a tradition of calling each other on our birthdays and singing Happy Birthday over the phone. In the spirit of blogging, we video taped them leaving my mom her birthday message. It is not at all perfect, but because Mom lives her life with joy and contentment even when things do not go as planned, it is a good launching point for some reflections on her.
If you met her on the street, you would not guess she'd battled three types of cancer (including chemo & radiation for breast cancer), Typhoid fever (contracted on a "second honeymoon" she & dad had in Mexico 25 years ago), and has a pacemaker. She works out, walks, and does a lot of things for others. She has this hilarious habit of leaving a funny story incomplete because she is laughing too uncontrollably to finish telling it. She is not the person who will tell you that you look great when you don't, nor is she the person who will gush over you until you are tired of yourself. She is, instead, someone who will just do the stuff of life WITH you, whether it is outrageous or normal, and she is a good friend. She accompanied all my college and graduate voice recitals (wowing the faculty) and went with me to the birthing classes when I was pregnant with Evelyn since Alan had to work. She encouraged me to think for myself and to make sure that I was "rightly dividing the Word of Truth," and not just taking someone else's word for it (including hers.) May we teach our girls that, too.
Happy Birthday, Mom. We love you.
1 comment:
I love your girls!!! Did evelyn say we should put a calendar on the brownie?
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