Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Mom


Mom, March 1921


My great grandmother, grandmother, Aunt Muriel, Uncle Bill and Mom, 1923


Uncle Bill, Aunt Muriel and Mom, 1928


Mom, 1939


Mom and unidentified man, 1942


Aunt Muriel, Uncle Bill and Mom, Easter 1967


Pumpkin, me and Mom, November 2001


Helen Elizabeth Fulmer Bailey - July 27, 1920 - December 19, 2005


My mom lived here in Colorado before moving to Phoenix. When she was here, she and I would sometimes go shopping in the part of town known as Old Colorado City. It's full of cute little specalty shops, galleries and tourist traps. Yesterday I paid Old Colorado City a visit. I wandered around the shops, stopped at La Baguette just like we used to do and ordered a bowl of their French Onion Soup, one of mom's favorites. Afterwards I stopped at Dairy Queen and got vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce and peanuts, another of her favorites. It almost felt like she was there.

At one point I was in a store and Bing Crosby came on the sound system singing "I'll Be Home For Christmas". I almost started crying right then and there. Each year at Christmas, EVERY time that song played on the radio she would always say "I went to high school with the man who wrote that song". It got to be so much a of a joke that often, as soon as the song came on, someone else would say before she had the chance "Did you know Mom went to High school with the guy who wrote that song!"...

Anne at 12:53 PM        
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