Friday

The thing I made a note of being grateful for on Friday was:

My mother!

It was so good to see her.  I'll see her again on Saturday when we will all be going to a Dowell family reunion (my father's family).  She is finally starting to look her age just a bit, and I do mean just a bit.  And at 82 she has the right to look her age.  She's very much a lady, very graceful, very smart, witty, humorous and yet very down-to-earth.  Specifically I am grateful that she is the grandmother to my children.  My kids are so close to her, and she is the best grandmother to all of her grandchildren (11) and her great-grandchildren (19).  She is "Mamaw" to her grandkids and Granny Great to her great-grandkids.

 

      

L: My mom with her sister when they were about 19 and 21 years old.  R:  My mother in front of her grandparents' house, again at about 20 years old.