Just another day!

Today is my moms birthday. She is 75 years old!!!
She certainly doesn't look her age, and she definitely doesn't act her age...well, most of the time.
My mom is an amazing woman and I want to share some things about her life.
My mom was born on a lake in Minnesota. Okay, it was actually in a little cabin, on a little island, located about 50 yards from the shore. We went there on a family vacation and saw it over 30 years ago.
Her father was from Norway. I recently discovered he was never a citizen of the U.S. but he did love it here. He died a few months before I was born, so I never had the opportunity to know him. 
Her mother was around 15 when she married my grandfather. Times have changed!! She always smelled like fresh bread and ran a few cafe's in and around Telluride.
My mom's family moved to Colorado when she was a kid. Grandpa worked for the Diamond Match Company in Mancos. He later worked with Orvil Jackson and was an independent logger.
She graduated from Del Norte High School in 1954. She married my dad in 1956 and they are still happily together.
My mom raised three children, (I'm the middle one) and helped raise her brothers children. 
She has always been active in church, and is now serving as W.M.U. President for the Colorado Baptist Convention. 
She loves V.B.S. and thinks she may slow down next summer, but none of us think she will.
My mom paints, and I proudly display her work in my home. 
She is an organizer. If you need something organized, she is the woman to call.
My mom taught me how to love, how to laugh, how to argue loudly, and the benefit of a good story.
Our family vacations were always road trips, and most memories I have of them are not the places we went, but the stories my mom told. She has this weird habit of getting guide books, and telling us about every town as we drove through it. (Something that bored us all when we drove through Nebraska!!) My sister and I rolling our eyes in the back seat when something in the guide book would cause her to remember something and off she would go, into a story!
I think she is the best grandma a child could have. My children and niece loved being with her as they were growing up and they all adore her. She took them places, made cookies, told stories, crafted, helped home school, babysat, and spent hours hugging and loving on them. 
My mom is a little bossy, but I wouldn't want her any other way.
The best compliment I received recently, was when my husband told me I was exactly like her. Thanks Honey, I only want to be half the woman she is!!