It's Your Birthday!

This is the smile that blessed our family on September 15, 1979. It seems like just a short time ago. CoolGuy and I clearly remember one significant thing about her birth. The first hour of her life, she looked at us each, as we held her, and focused her eyes intently on ours and babbled something extremely earnest. Of course, we didn't know that language, nor did she know ours, so we don't know what she said. But it was clearly very important. The reason this is significant is that new babies don't focus their eyes, nor babble. But she did, right after getting here, to each of us. And then, she didn't do it any more until it was developmentally appropriate. I hope some day to know what the important message was. I think it was something about God, or Heaven. She'd just been there so recently.

Here are some more remembrances of a life lived well, a delightful daughter, a loving sister, a loyal friend, and compassionate nurse.

Coronado Island beach on July 4th.

With Snowball, the bunny, in Idaho.

Eighth grade graduation, E.O. Green, Oxnard CA.

And did I tell you that she is also a talented artist? No, really--she started young with flowers and ladies, but expanded her talent to include pencil drawings, watercolors, ceramics and pies.

She has always loved cats and now she has two of her own who are really quite charming, in a psycho kind of way.





I'm telling you, that smile...