January 22
Today is/would have been our mother’s 90th birthday and it’s her first birthday not here. She was a birthday FREAK. Really. Oh the energy she would pour into all our birthdays. But as much as that, she loved her own birthday.
She thought so much of her birthday that 7 years ago when her 3rd great-grandchild was born on her birthday she said something to the effect of ‘darn’ and the one time we tried to celebrate their birthdays together Mom pouted the whole time.
And now GUESS WHAT!? Travis and Lainee’s baby, great-grandbaby number 8, was born TODAY On Her Birthday! Welcome to the world, Jack Weston Black!