On Turning 90…
Happy Birthday to R.’s mom, my mother-in-law, who turns 90 today. (This photo was taken on the occasion of her high-school graduation, in 1934 or 1935.)
She was born on a working farm in Minnesota…her parents were Norwegian immigrants and staunch Lutherans…she is possessed of more curiousity about just about everything than most people…she is a voracious reader and a very good listener…she was a school teacher and music teacher and didn’t get married until she was 36, and then she married a man who was (only) 25!!…she’s been married to him for 53 years.
She loves modern design, she collects glass, she went to Morocco for the first time last year, she firmly believes in Michelin tires and will pay you to switch your four wheels over, and she affixes post-it notes to the backs of EVERYTHING (think: artworks, books, cards, bulletins and programs, etc.) in order to tell the object’s “backstory” to whomever inherits the item.
I have absolutely no idea what it feels like to enter one’s nineties, but I’d certainly like to do it the way that she does it. Happy Birthday to this most remarkable woman!
Wow! What a lady! Happy birthday!
Comment by: OmegaMom - 03.26.2007 - 3.03 pm
Wow, she’s really a beautiful woman, inside and out. Those pictures are gorgeous.
Comment by: Jacquie - 03.26.2007 - 4.09 pm
Happy Birthday!!
What an amazing lady! She looks wonderful for her age and it sounds like she does more then most people half her age do.
Keep smilin!
Comment by: Doris Clark - 03.26.2007 - 4.38 pm
I really love this post, she sounds fantastic.
Comment by: lisa - 03.26.2007 - 4.41 pm
I really love this post, she sounds fantastic.
Comment by: lisa - 03.26.2007 - 4.41 pm
People like that inspire me. Here’s to turning 90.
Comment by: Mrs. Vandertramp - 03.26.2007 - 5.19 pm
Wow! She is certainly a beauty. Then and now. Happy Birthday!
Comment by: christie - 03.26.2007 - 5.37 pm
She’s a real beauty. Happy birthday R’s mom!
Comment by: Rhonda - 03.26.2007 - 6.24 pm
Is that a recent pic? What a gorgeous lady. Inside and out - from everything that you said about her. So many things to love about the way that she lives her life. She’s an inspiration to you, it sounds.
Happy 90th!!!!!
Comment by: wzgirl - 03.26.2007 - 7.09 pm
She sounds pretty amazing. And she is indeed lovely!
Comment by: Brooklyn Mama - 03.26.2007 - 8.02 pm
She sounds amazing, not to mention completely stunning. Happy 90th!
(You mean some people actually have good mother-in-laws? Huh.)
Comment by: Jessi - 03.26.2007 - 8.43 pm
Went to Morocco for the first time at 89? Please give her my regards and warm birthday wishes - what an inspriring woman. She’s stunning, too. Great genes, R!
Comment by: walternatives - 03.26.2007 - 9.02 pm
I would love to look like that at 90. Amazing.
Comment by: joelle - 03.26.2007 - 10.53 pm
she is beautiful!
Comment by: Nicole - 03.27.2007 - 10.47 am
Happy Birthday to R’s mom!!! I can’t decide if she is more beautiful now or at 18…She sounds like an absolutely incredible woman and how lucky you are to know her.
Comment by: Anne Marie - 03.27.2007 - 1.49 pm
Wow! She looks like Charlize Theron!
Comment by: Maia - 03.28.2007 - 4.53 am
She sounds amazing…I hope that she enjoys the coming year!
Comment by: Amanda - 03.28.2007 - 7.44 am
Reminds me a bit of my Highland grannie, lovely woman she was, and not one you’d look sideways at. Slainte’ to your mum-in-law on her 90th. May she enjoy all of her days…
Comment by: FDChief - 03.29.2007 - 10.14 pm
She’s beautiful! Happy Birthday!
Comment by: DebraSue - 03.31.2007 - 3.15 pm
She is stunning! My grandmother taped notes on things too! (This was pre-Post-It Notes). I still find them on things and LOVE it!!! We treasure our Granny’s notes as much as the things they are attached to.
Comment by: Cavatica - 04.01.2007 - 6.08 pm
Hope I look this good at 70!! She looks amazing!!
Happy Birthday to her!
Comment by: jules - 04.01.2007 - 7.38 pm