Celebrating Wisdom and Experience

While that may sound strange, it's very appropriate this time to talk about Mom's 99th birthday and her 99th Christmas ... what a history!

 

Below are brother Richard and wife Kerry with the almost centenarian ... next year will be the big one or one hundred actually. We left Flower Mound on the 20th and motored in the car the 200 miles down to see Mom at the St Joseph Manor nursing home in Bryan. Taking the car and staying in a hotel is quite different for us when the RV was so much home for so long ... oooh motel beds and their linens ... miss the Flying Scotsman already.

 

Actually the Manor had their Christmas party on the 21st so we brought a few presents to Mom to be opened in the communal room of the home. After Santa got done with the public presentations we opted for a private room and treated Mom to some cake and ice cream and had her Christmas there.

 

Then we were back at the Manor on the 23rd for her 99th birthday. Sometimes when we visit she isn't spontaneous but this time she was funny, witty, and quite observant of what was going on and the presents we were giving her on this auspicious occasion.

For each card and gift Richard and I presented she had some neat comments and some really appropriate thanks to us for each gift. Notice the "99" on the cake which we soon demolished with her help as well as some ice cream. We just wish we were a bit closer to give Richard a hand and be with Mom more often at this point in her life.

Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday Mom!!!