My mother would have been 83 today, March 4. Last year, when she got her cancer diagnosis, she hoped she’d make it to her birthday. On March 4, I was making cupcakes for her when she decided that she was ready to leave her apartment for the last time. She was transported to hospice for a couple of days, then went into the care home where she lived for almost three more months. And that night, Tom, Rhonda, Lindsey, and Kathy went with me to deliver her cupcakes.
2008
2005, 2006, 2007
Mother shares her birthday with rain_wolfe and my writing partner tjbtimmy. Happy birthday!
Timmy and me at a signing in 2006
These birthdays come in the middle of a LOT of birthdays. My friend Ken, our friend Kenneth (KK!), Tom’s sister KT, and a couple of real cutie pies:
grand-niece Amelia and nephew John
Happy birthday to our literary agent Alison, and internationally to n8an in Canada and my lifelong friend Debbie in Sweden.
On the eighth, I’ll be wishing our friend Robin a happy birthday. But I’ll be missing this birthday guy just like I do every day (and I stole this photo from the MySpace page of one of his best friends and band mates):
Riley
Coming up on the twelfth, I’ll also miss my friend Tim R on his birthday, but I’ll celebrate the birthday of one of the best people in my life:
My nephew Josh.
I’ll get to more birthdays later in the month. This has been a lot of celebrating for a simple slug.
Great pictures to look at. Riley always looks like he was one cool dude. : )
Thanks.
And he was.
Wow, I feel sort of honored to share a birthday with your mother, and also honored to be mentioned here in relation.
Tonight while we were watching States (something like that) on the History Channel, they got to Texas and I shouted out, “I’VE GOT FRIENDS IN TEXAS!!”
:0)
=)
Danke! I feel blessed to have such company! 🙂
Hope you continue to have a good birthday!
Happy Birthday to all these special people in your life, Becky!!
I’m sure they all appreciate your good wishes. =)
That’s an attractive lot of friends and family members you’ve got there, Ms. Slug. And nary a slime trail among them!
Ha!
that is a lot of b-days!
happy day to all!
I don’t know why there are so many people in my life with the same birthdays. Plus I seem to be loaded down with Pisces.
It looks like your March is a time to remember and celebrate!
Do you think your Mother’s birthday is the reason for the slugdom? She looks terribly sweet in the photos.
I think it’s very possible that you are right about the slugdom.
Wow, that’s quite a month, so far!! And we haven’t even got to the start of “Aries” yet!!!
(Happy birthday).
I know. There are so many birthdays of people I know during this time!