My mother was born on Christmas Eve, 1921. Mom always said the timing of her birth was poor planning on her parents’ part because she never had a proper birthday party that was separate from Christmas celebrations – to say nothing of the fact that my grandmother had to hastily
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THE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: Christmas Eve 2016 is Mom’s 95th – Here’s Her Present
My mother was born on Christmas Eve, 1921. Mom always said the timing of her birth was poor planning on her parents’ part because she never had a proper birthday party that was separate from Christmas celebrations – to say nothing of the fact that my grandmother had to hastily
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: On Birthdays and Christmases Past
This December 23rd, I am wistful about time passing. Tomorrow is my Mom’s 93rd birthday. It seems like yesterday we celebrated her 90th – time is passing so quickly now that I am older. We met our daughter at the airport last evening and when she walked out of the
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