Happy Mother's Day to My Mumsie

Happy Mother's Day to my little mumsie....

I love the first picture of her in a magenta cardigan and khakis with the African inspired prints on her bed and drapes...mostly because of the orangutan poster hanging on her dorm wall at Kalamazoo. She must have loved monkeys and apes as much as I did...She was an anthropology major which is something I considered going into in college before going the communications route. 

Almost every time I go to my grandparents, I love looking through the old photo albums. My grandpa has hundreds of pictures he keeps in hard covered albums from when my mom and her siblings were little through adulthood. Last I was there, we found the 60s, 70s, and 80s albums -- all full of the classic retro style of the times. 

Some of the albums

My grandma, mom, and uncles

My mom and my aunt

My mom and uncle--loving this hair do, lol

My mom and my uncle

My mom on a fishing trip

My mom and grandpa on a ski trip

Just like I did when I was younger, my mom loved horse back riding at the stables

Off to K college

My mom as a bridesmaid

My mom and three brothers

My mom doing what she used to always do -- painting

My mom and two of her brothers

My mom and her baby brother

Working at her dad's company -- Creative Industries, one of the leading auto manufacturers before the fall of the USA auto industry

Baby mommy.

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