Happy Birthday XLO05! TGIF

Today at Amusing Muses and at TGIF we're celebrating my mother's birthday, and this is the card I sent her. The inside says," The highest form of bliss is a certain amount of folly." Words to live by. If you don't know the infamous XLo05, please go back and read "The Spy Who Loved Me" (click on label below or see my June 9 post).

10 Things I Love About Mother:
1. She can recite The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales in Old English.
2. She can shoot a shotgun and sleeps with one under her bed.
3. She writes beautiful poetry.
4. She taught me that family is the most important thing in the world, to love books, and to always help those less fortunate than myself.
5. She told me and Ava the story of To Kill A Mockingbird at Pasquales' one night because we were too young to read it yet.
6. She has great legs.
7. She's the best English teacher I ever had.
8. She taught me to be independent and strong.
9. She's very athletic and plays a mean game of golf.
10. She's the hardest working woman in Silly Town.




Here are some of my favorite pictures of Mother: