Forty-Nine......Happy birthday mom

1961.....Babyboomer..what was going on back then.....President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps. The Soviet put up a wall dividing East and West Berlin. The first lasers were invented. Ty Cobb dies and the Yankees win the World Series. Barbie doll finally gets a boyfriend, Ken. Movies: West Side Story Songs:Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Blue Moon TV Shows: Bullwinkle, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, Hazel, Dick Van Dyke Show, Top Cat. Ernest Hemmingway dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Electric toothbrushes introduced. So thats what was going on the year Susie was born. Well, thats what was going on in the United States, but she was born in Heidelburg, Germany.
        As I stroll down the isles of Walmart today I was looking for others from the "babyboomer" generation. 49 years old she would have been today......what does 49 look like? Speckles of grey? Wrinkles? As I wondered and people watched, I didn't find anyone that really could compare to what I "think" she would have looked like. Disappointing really! Other than physical features 49 years really have seen a lot in a life time! HALF A CENTURY, all that really stands for is experience and knowledge. Their minds are like books.
     Truth is the image I have in my mind of my mother is her at the age of 43! As the days go by and years soon pass, I approach the age of my mother. See she will never grow old. I can go back and find out significant events that went on during her life span and go through the small box of things I have of her, but she will never get a day old than 43. I can live each year and compare it to the memories I have of my mother when she was my age, but in 16 years we will be the same age. It will be a hard image of myself with a hair full of grey hairs and remembering my mother with her head full of light brown hair. I don't know how she would look now at 49, but I can probably bet she would have been just as beautiful as the day she left this world.
Anthony (my son) and I baked several cookies and a pumpkin cheese cake today! Susie LOVED desert! Happy Birthday! You were definetly thought of and talked about today.