January 30
The Texas gang, Y’All! Windy’s younger son Travis with birthday boy Jack, and then Lainee with Cali-May and Jack. Oh that Jack, growin’ like a weed, and the spitin’ image of his Daddy. And Lainee and Cali-May are going to pass for sisters.
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I wrote recently how my mother was SO into her birthday. Then by coincidence she had a granddaughter born on her birthday (Charis Brown of the Hawaii Browns, and then a few years later (coincidence I ask?) she had a grandson born On Her Birthday (Jack Black of the Texas Blacks). How would she react? She was Not about to share Her birthday! We tried it once to an unfortunate outcome.
Important to note .. as much as she was dedicated to Her birthday she was equally dedicated to Your birthday. She devoted herself to each and every birthday with so much focus, so much intensity. Say anything you’d like her to make or to do and if it was for your birthday and within her power, it would be yours without question.
My To-Do List for today: birthday cards, yesterday’s pictures, post office, phone calls, start 2012 taxes, movie plans, nails, frame, clean the bathroom, haircut, smog check and registration. What I did today: not all that.