Happy Mom's Day - Happy Birthday

Happy MOM's Day to the MOMs in my life!

To my GrandMOM who raised my MOM to be the wonderful MOM that she is, and who always had wonderful aromas coming from her kitchen and her garden.

To my MOM who is the perfect example of selflessness and enduring to the end.

To Frank's MOM for giving me my husband and for her unwavering faith and example of the power of prayer.



Happy MOM's day to my beautiful daughter Kelli who is an amazing MOM and who made me a GrandMOM.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY today to my darling daughter-in-law Stacie!! And even though she isn't a MOM yet, I appreciate her mothering skills when it comes to taking care of my son Geoff.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY tomorrow to my brother Rod, who was born on MOM's day and whose beautiful wife Jill is celebrating MOM's day for the first time this year!

I hope all of you have a Happy MOM's day

and a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

I love you!

Spring Time

I knew when I started this whole blogging thing that it was going to be TIME consuming. I have all these great ideas for posts, but before I know it, all this TIME has gone by and now it's been more than two months since I posted anything.

Last TIME I posted it was still Winter TIME (technically. I think that was one of the weeks when it was really, really warm here). Then I went out of town a few times, life got crazy (as it usually does) and I kind of lost track of TIME. Then the whole Swine Flu thing came up, my grandbabies were sick with Influenza A, and I was starting to get just the tiniest bit anxious (read: trying not to freak out). Then wednesday when I left my neighborhood to run to the store for my daughter, I saw this

And it touched my heart, and reminded me that it's SPRING TIME!! A time for renewal, and new birth. There was that mama duck with her little babies following her as they crossed the street right in front of me, and suddenly things didn't seem so scary anymore. I could stop and put things in perspective, and realize that everything was going to be OK. So I picked up the groceries for Kelli and took them to her house, then showed Tyler the picture of the mama duck with her babies. It made her smile, and laugh, and that made me smile and laugh, and then everything was all right with the world, in spite of the stupid piggy flu!

And what would SPRING TIME be without pictures of cute little girls in their Easter dresses? (Even though they had pretty much had enough of Easter by the time these pictures were taken, so to see happier girls in their Easter dresses, go here).

I am grateful for SPRING, and for cute little girls in their Easter dresses. And I'm going to enjoy SPRING TIME because it will probably only be here for another week and then it will be Summer!

A New Nephew!!

We have a New Nephew! My older brother Rod and his wife Jill welcomed this little cutie into the world last week.



Welcome Maddox Michael Tucker we're so glad you could join us!

Famous People

Some of you might recognize this Famous Mesa resident. She returned to American Idol this evening to sing her new song. Yes, I will admit it, I'm a bit addicted to American Idol.

A few months ago we attended a benefit concert for the Anasazi Foundation. Brooke didn't sing, but she was there. So, of course when I saw her I asked if it was OK to take her picture with my son and my nephew. She so graciously agreed.

Then I got a bit star struck and just couldn't help myself.

After all, how often do you get to have your picture taken with Famous People?

Apparantly twice, in one night. Here we are with the Gin Blossoms (not that I would have known who they were if I'd bumped into them on the street, but they were Famous at one time.)

Truth be told, they're just people, Famous or not, and Brooke White really was very kind.

 

GLAMOUR SHOT??  WHAT??

I believe some of you asked for an updated glamour shot.  

This will have to do for now.

Mothers & Daughters


This is Gen Black.
She turned 96 years young last week.
















This is her DAUGHTER, my MOTHER

Once, I was just a DAUGHTER

Then I got married and

was blessed with a second

MOTHER

And I became a MOTHER when I had this beautiful DAUGHTER

Who became the MOTHER of these two adorable DAUGHTERS

Here are five generations of

MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS


and a more recent picture of four generations






When my son got married, I added another beautiful DAUGHTER

I am grateful for the many

MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS

who bless my life.

And the Winner Is . . . . . . . . . .

I thought I was oh, so clever when I came up with the name for my blog.

Apparently, not so much, since the first person to guess got it right.

And even though the second guess was not what I was originally thinking when I came up with A.B.O.M.O.


I liked it just as much, for it was . . . . . ..

All Because Off My Offspring

that I started

A Blog Of My Own

So, thank you to my two friends, Stephanie and Debbie, for playing the game.

And CONGRATULATIONS to Stephanie for winning the prize!


You should look for this

coming to your mailbox soon.

And just in case you were wondering, yes, I do know that you are not supposed to start a sentence with the word AND, but I did it anyway.