Monday, May 6, 2024

This is what 70 looks like!


                                             Well, here I am- all 70 years of me!


It was actually a nice day (and yesterday).  Yesterday my sister Carol brought me a bunch of geraniums in little pots to transplant..(she gave me lots of other good stuff too)

This morning when I got up this morning there were more plants that Nick had bought for me for my birthday!


 

 Carol and I and some of her friends who I know all went to lunch together at a Mexican restaurant.  Yummy food and great company!  I should have taken a picture of my food!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Courtney set up a Zoom session so we could all celebrate Austin's birthday 2 days ago and my birthday today.  It was so nice to see and talk to all five kids at the same time.


 

Each of the five kids are different from each other, but they are all so awesome in their own unique ways.  It was nice to hear them talking to each other as well as Nick and I.

And here I am, a day over seventy! 

 


 

Thursday, May 2, 2024

I'm turning 70!

 

I posted this on a Facebook group for women over 50 and got over 400 responses.  I'll try to post some of them sometime.

" apropos of nothing really I guess. But here I go. I am turning 70 on Sunday May 5th and I am pissed off. I don't want to be 70 and be older and wiser. I know that I don't really have a choice, and once that milestone date passes I will be fine. My sister and my husband, the two people who I am closest to are both 76, so they are not very sympathetic or understanding. No platitudes needed- I just needed to get it out!"

 

This is a picture of me showing a sewing machine to my stepmother

I was 16 or 17 at the time

     

                                                        Nick and Nancy May 1975

 

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