Mother's Day

"May 13, 1990:  Mother's Day.  Tom and Merilyn were in Iowa Fri. and Sat.  They came to Winside Sun. morning and brought Howard and Irene to Nancy's.  The whole family was there for dinner.  Irene and Howard rode back to Winside with us."

Drilling, schmilling....tomorrow, I promise, to my three readers who probably all know the story already.  But I will get to that tomorrow.

Aunt Irene.  There is nowhere to begin with Aunt Irene stories.  She was sassy and smart and travelled the world and has been informally voted "Most Unique Laugh/Giggle in the Family."  One thing I realized rather early on about Aunt Irene is that her best laughs were on herself.  Things most people would probably not share with others, she shared with a great talent for the humorous.  The most obvious example of this for me is when she took a flower arranging class.  She worked diligently on her arrangement with knowledge gleaned from the class.  Then the instructor asked her to come forward when she was done.  She told how she was so proud to have been picked from the bunch.  Imagine her reaction when the instructor started off with something like, "This is what you do not want to do . . . "  I bet she started laughing right away.