Karin's Birthday 2011

Karin and Alan

Jaime and sangria. Aaron was there but I can't seem to catch them together with the camera.

A great picture of Mary and Bruce

Roger and me, blurry but smiling

Wood Fired Pizza for Karin's birthday. Another milestone in our lives. For at least the last 4 or 5 years we have gotten together to celebrate our birthdays since Karin and Alan moved nearby to be our neighbors and become part of our family. This time we went to Word Fired Pizza which turned out to be near the old Cody's restaurant where we celebrated last year. Now Cody's has a new reincarnation as an Irish Pub. I'm sure we will be back there again since Alan loves Irish Pubs. They remind him of his UK homeland. Once again, I forgot to take pictures of the food. Ever since my days working at Florida Trend Magazine, I have dreamed of being a roving food critic. Ha! Can't do that without food pictures. We got crusty wood fired pizza with sausage, pepperoni, grilled onions and mushrooms. It was yummy. Click on the restaurant name to see the menu.

Mother on Mother's Day

July 1, 1948. The date is on the back of the photo. I didn't even know they had color film back then. (I am the baby in the picture.)

Grandma and Jaime

Mom at work posing with what looks like an empty file folder.

Mom relaxing. She loved to fish.

Jaime, Mom and me at Christmas. 1980

Me and my mom and dad about 1957.

Mom in a great coat. I think she was still single. Don't know what year this was. Maybe 1938?

Mom and Dad. Don't know the make or model of this car.

Rick, Uncle Glen, Mom, Dad and me at my Aunt Esther's farm house.

This blog is linked to Sepia Saturday - a blog featuring great old photographs. Click on the link to see more.

My mother. I'm remembering her on Mother's Day. I have written before about her childhood at the Grandfather Children's Home in North Carolina. She was slim and pretty all her life. She never learned to drive but could walk for miles in high heels. She was a professional woman and an excellent cook. She loved movies and movie stars and taught me to appreciate movies from her era, Hitchcock such as "Rear Window" with Jimmie Stewart and Grace Kelly, "Gone with the Wind", "Rebecca" -- all the old classics remind me of her. She liked Gayle Storm and Nat King Cole. Her favorite hymn was "Old Rugged Cross." She loved to play Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit and taught us all how to play poker. She made sure we had great birthday parties and Christmas presents. Her grandchildren adored her and still do. I need to find a good picture of her and Cory because he loved his grandma so much and she loved him. She died only a few months before her first great-grandchild was born, but she "saw" a sonogram of him even though she had cataracs and suggested the name "Jonah" before she left us. She was close to all of our friends when we were young, including Darlene, who became my brother's wife after my mother was gone. My brother waited till late in life to marry. I just wanted to call my mom so bad and say, "Guess What?????" But I'm sure she knows. I can't say I exactly miss her because she feels like such a part of me and of my daughter, Jaime. Happy Mother's Day, Mom!

Inspirations - Mary's house

Mary and friends

We lined up the Teddy Bears and took a picture to sell on Craig's List at Chrsitmas. No luck.

Lion Cut

I've discovered a whole new world of blogs and am busy adding my favorites to the list. It is so much fun to take a peek at other people's homes and lifestyles. Here are a few images from one of my real life inspriations, my friend Mary's house and her cat with it's lion cut. She said the kitty was uncomfortable with the cut at first but it helps "cut down" on cat hair in the house.