Happy Birthday…to my Mom!
<p>Today is my Mom’s birthday!</p>
<p><a onclick="window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=546,height=747,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0′); return false" href="http://jessaluknits.yarncourtesans.com/exit.php?url_id=1930&entry_id=302" title="http://jessalu.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/mom.jpg" onmouseover="window.status=’http://jessalu.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/mom.jpg’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;"><img width="149" height="205" border="0" src="http://jessalu.typepad.com/jessaluknits/images/mom.jpg" title="Mom" alt="Mom" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;" /></a></p>
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<p>I am going to totally steal from the <a href="http://jessaluknits.yarncourtesans.com/exit.php?url_id=1931&entry_id=302" title="http://www.yarnharlot.ca" onmouseover="window.status=’http://www.yarnharlot.ca’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Harlot </a><br />(because she is a genius) and list the top 10 reasons why you should wish my Mom a happy birthday:</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>10. She has a drop-dead sense of style. See exhibit 1:<a onclick="window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=279,height=302,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0′); return false" href="http://jessaluknits.yarncourtesans.com/exit.php?url_id=1932&entry_id=302" title="http://jessalu.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/momgmame.jpg" onmouseover="window.status=’http://jessalu.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/momgmame.jpg’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;"><img width="150" height="162" border="0" src="http://jessalu.typepad.com/jessaluknits/images/momgmame.jpg" title="Momgmame" alt="Momgmame" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;" /></a> </p>
<p>That’s mom on the right.  Note the side zippers.  (my Grandma is on the left and that’s me in the front)  In mom’s defense this is c. 1970-something so she probably was at the height of fashion at the time.</p>
<p>9. She has (almost) always supported me in my decisions.  </p>
<p>8.  She drives a really cool truck (a 2000 Tundra that used to be ours).</p>
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<p>7.  She has a kickass sense of humor.  See exhibit 2:</p>
<p><a onclick="window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0′); return false" href="http://jessaluknits.yarncourtesans.com/exit.php?url_id=1933&entry_id=302" title="http://jessalu.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/turkey_and_car_xmas_006.jpg" onmouseover="window.status=’http://jessalu.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/turkey_and_car_xmas_006.jpg’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;"><img width="150" height="112" border="0" src="http://jessalu.typepad.com/jessaluknits/images/turkey_and_car_xmas_006.jpg" title="Turkey_and_car_xmas_006" alt="Turkey_and_car_xmas_006" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;" /></a>That’s mom helping me decorate dad after he was the first to fall asleep at Thanksgiving - don’t feel bad for him, he fell asleep and he knows the consequences!  Besides, he’d do it to us in a heartbeat.</p>
<p>6.  She’s really crafty - good at scrapbooking, beading, knitting, etc.</p>
<p>5.  She’s a great grandma - spoils the hell out of all her grandkids and takes mine every Tuesday night so I can have a night to myself (<span title="Boyfriend" class="serendipity_glossaryMarkup">BF</span> is a fire practice on Tuesdays - no, not practicing to START fires, practicing to put them OUT).</p>
<p>4.  She has put up with my dad for thirty-four years (well, almost).</p>
<p>3.  She didn’t kill me (or anyone else in the family) - although it’s not for lack of trying.   Please note that ‘mom is a great cook’ isn’t on this list.  Mom heats up a mean frozen dinner.  Let’s leave it at that.</p>
<p>2. She’s always there in a pinch - case in point: I came home to an electric-less house last week because stupid me didn’t send out the check in time.  Mom works at the pharmacy where you make payments to the electric company so I called her frantically and she made the payment for me so I didn’t have to drive all the way back into town.  I had electric again one hour later.  If I had had to go back into town it would have added at least an hour to that time.   So - thanks for pulling me ass out of the fire again mom!!  Sorry I’m an idiot!</p>
<p>1.  She’s cool enough to not care about current fashion and instead opts to ‘go retro’:</p>
<p><a onclick="window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=800,height=544,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0′); return false" href="http://jessaluknits.yarncourtesans.com/exit.php?url_id=1934&entry_id=302" title="http://jessalu.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/baptism.jpg" onmouseover="window.status=’http://jessalu.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/baptism.jpg’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;"><img width="150" height="102" border="0" src="http://jessalu.typepad.com/jessaluknits/images/baptism.jpg" title="Baptism" alt="Baptism" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;" /></a>This is my baptism photo.  Pretty cool, eh?</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>So…HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!  Sorry I got this posted a day late….and aren’t you glad I didn’t find the ‘braces’ photo?  hehehe  :o)</p>
