Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Happy Birthday, Mom!

January 8, 2007

Today is MY mom's birthday. I always thought that M. would be born on the same day (and actually, I think that's why my labor never progressed until the pitocin...M. wanted to share her Grandma's birthday). Our family has a strange affinity to being born on "8's".

My mom: January 8
Me: January 18
C: March 28
My brother: April 18
T: May 8

See how nicely M. would have fit in there? :)

Anyway, my brother and I gave mom a set of All-Clad pots for Christmas and her birthday, but I couldn't let her birthday go by with nothing. Mom oohed and aahed over the hats I knit for the girls for Christmas, so I decided to make her one, to match HER jacket, and send it for her birthday. Here's a picture:
And we tucked in a little Grandma page-a-day calendar and hand-made cards from the kids. Hopefully it arrived (at her office) over the weekend so it was waiting for her this morning.


Update:
Mom actually was home SICK on her birthday, so no gift waiting for her. Argh! I'm hoping she's well enough to go in today.

3 comments:

Stefaneener said...

That's incentive for getting back into work.

What a lovely lovely hat.

Anonymous said...

Happy belated birthday to your mom... and early birthday to you!

So, your mom's is a day before R's and yours is 8 days after, and T's is the exact same day as my brother's, C's is 8 days after mine, and your brother's is 3 days after my dad's. I really think that all means something, right?

Abby said...

Happy Birthday to your mom (a few days late). Beautiful hat - what a nice thing to find at work. :) I hope she's feeling better.