Blog Day # 139 in a day of my life. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! 97 yrs young!

     Well, almost a century ago, 97 years to be exact, Mary Aiken was born. Next to the youngest of 11 other brothers and sisters! They were called Down Homers. The area of Pa. that this tag was put to. At least in our family, that's how that area around Corsica and Brookville-Brookway was always talked about. My grandma was Pa. Dutch and my Grand pa was first generation USA once removed from County Tyrone in Ireland.

     So even although I can not be there today- we will be trekking North in another week, and doing the same the following week to see my mother. Work has its downside and this being one of them- getting away to enjoy life!


                  SO TODAY I SHOUT OUT TO MY MOTHER- HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

             MARY AIKEN FITZSIMMONS SOULES  JULY 25TH 1915!  THE REAL BOSS!





    SHE COMES AND GOES IN THE TIME FRAME OF A DAY- SLIPPING IN AND OUT OF REALITY- BUT WHEN SHE IS HERE, SHE IS SO SWEET- SO LOVING AND SO FUNNY!

SHE CAN REMEMBER HER YOUTH OF 93 YRS AGO- BUT HAS TROUBLE REMEMBERING MY VISITS! SHE CAN NAME PEOPLE IN PICTURES WHO HAVE BEEN GONE ALMOST AS LONG AS SHE HAS BEEN ALIVE-BUT DOESN'T REMEMBER WHO I AM. THEN SHE IS BACK- AND THE CONVERSATIONS ARE GOOD. YOU KNOW, IT IS NOT HER FAULT- SHE TRIES , BUT SOMETIMES IT JUST ISN'T THERE. BUT, SHE IS MOM, AND ALWAYS WILL BE THAT!




     THERE ARE ONLY THREE OF US LEFT FROM THIS PICTURE- AND SHE IS ONE!
SHE WILL ASK WHY DONNA HAS NOT COME TO SEE HER- AND IT IS AWKWARD TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION, BUT I DO WITH TEARS IN MY EYES- AND THEN SHE REMEMBERS AND SAYS TO ME "BILL ALSO!" AND I SAY YES, AND THEN WE LOOK AT ONE ANOTHER AND SHE SAYS, "I TOLD YOU I WOULD OUTLIVE THEM ALL!" AND THEN WE LAUGH AND SAY YES YOU WILL.

    SHE DOESN'T WANT TO GO ON SOMETIMES-SHE SAYS SHE HAS HAD ENOUGH. WHAT DO YOU SAY? THEN SHE GETS MAD AND SAYS SOME OFF THE WALL THING THAT IN ITS WAY IS FUNNY. OFTEN TIMES MIXING UP WHAT HAPPENED A LONG TIME AGO INTO WHAT AND WHERE SHE IS TODAY. YOU LISTEN BECAUSE IN THERE, THERE IS SOME TRUTH, JUST A LITTLE MIXED UP!



YES, SHE IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE REAL BOSS TO ME. SHE IS AMAZING, TOW DAYS PRIOR TO THIS PICTURE, I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO LOSE HER. A PHONE CALL ON WEDS. AFTERNOON, JULY 4TH. WE WERE IN WILLIAMSBURG VA. SHE HAD SLUMPED OVER AT LUNCH, SHE WAS IN ER. THEY WERE TALKING PACEMAKER. I JUST NEW SHE COULD NOT SURVIVE THAT OPERATION. THAT NIGHT, THEY REPORTED HER HEART STOPPED TWICE. HER HEART BEAT WAS IN THE 30'S, THEN THE 40'S. WE RACED HOME TO PICK UP CLOTHES AND THEN ON OUR WAY TO BRADFORD T ARRIVE AT 7PM THURSDAY. SHE WAS IN A ROOM. SHE DID NOT KNOW ME BUT SAID SHERRY RIGHT AWAY.

WHEN WE LEFT HER TO GO TO MT. JEWETT, TO STAY WITH SHERRY'S MOM, I DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT THE NEXT MORNING. BUT WHEN WE GOT THERE, WOW, HER HEART BEAT WAS BACK INTO THE 60'S AND IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS, SHE TOLD THE HEART DOCTOR, NO, I AM NOT HAVING A PACE MAKER, I WANT TO GO BACK TO MY ROOM, AND YOU ARE NOT TOUCHING ME!!!!

THE REAL BOSS HAD RETURNED! SHE WAS BACK- AND WAS HAVING NOTHING TO DO WITH IT! ONE HOUR LATER, AFTER THEY HELPED HER GET DRESSED, THIS WAS THE PICTURE!

SOOOOOO----TODAY IS HER DAY- HER BIRTHDAY- 97 YRS OLD OR YOUNG- FOR WE ALL SEEM TO REGRESS BACK TO BEING YOUNG AGAIN -BABIES-WHERE YOU HAVE TO BE TAKEN CARE OF. SHE IS ONE OF A KIND. THE PERSON THAT I LOVE- SHE IS MOTHER- SHE IS MOM- SHE IS MARYAIKEN FITZSIMMONS SOULES.

                                    HAPPY BIRTHDAY- JULY 25TH 1915