Christmas Eve Birthdays

My Mom is a

~Christmas Eve Baby~

Boy did she luck out

Every year us 3 kids have always made sure that we were with

~Mom~

My sister-n-law always makes her favorite dinner

~Salmon~

She opens her presents at dinner

we have dessert, pecan pie

and sing Happy Birthday

then.....

 retire to the family room for

~The Big Christmas Eve Celebration~

She has always complained about that lousy birthday,

How as a kid she got one present instead of two from 

family relatives, unlike her sister!

So we have always made it known to the spouses that on

~Mom's birthday we are always there for her~

Not too long ago Mom said something

about that lousy birthdate again and I said,

"lousy, you made out big time"

Us kids have never went anywhere else for Christmas!

It's true, she is our tradition on Christmas Eve

all because she was dealt a bad hand for a  birthdate

she hadn't thought about it that way but for more than

three quarters of her life it was a darn good date to be born!

This year she is

~75~

Happy Birthday Moo

I love you and I will dearly miss you on

~your special day~

I can't remember the last time I wasn't there for you...

Her birthday last year

with my brothers

At Mom's with us and her brothers family a few days before her birthday

Her favorite..pecan pie

not cake

She was just down here visiting us

I think it was a perfect day to be born

and guess what...

3 years ago this Christmas Eve

her first Great Grandchild

~My Mattie~

was born on the same day

Lucky Madeline Grace

That's another post.....