Today is my mom's birthday
Today, my mom would have been 76. Each year Drake and I celebrate this day by having her birthday dinner. My mom always wanted the same thing every year: hamburgers on the grill, fresh tomatoes from the garden, and corn on the cob (which we bought at Anton's Fruit Ranch). Our tomatoes are still tiny and green, and it's 2,094 miles to get corn at the Fruit Ranch, so we'll get those items at our market locally.
Funny thing about the Fruit Ranch. I loved going there as a kid. It's a bit more upscale now, but back then it was more ranch-y feeling. When I was in high school, the Antons moved right next door. I felt like we had real celebrities as our neighbors!
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I think this is an excellent way to celebrate.
This year, for my mother's birthday and Mother's Day (the two always fell very close together), I wrote down a list of things I wanted my nephew to know about my mother that he certainly wouldn't remember about her (he was only two and a half when she died), and that more standard biographies tend to omit. Examples: She was on the staff of her high-school yearbook and newspaper; she thought wild huckleberries on her Cheerios were food from heaven; she painted her toenails a variety of insane colors, sometimes alternating colors on the same foot.