...and many more!

Singing Happy Birthday today to my very beautiful mother, our Sugar Cookie-- the name Justin gave her as soon as he could speak.  She's the spirit of a giant incongruously contained in a petite package of heart, soul, beauty, brains, backbone, zeal, and spunk.  She sings in my head and my heart and in all my dreams of childhood, and I love her to the moon and back. 

And now, for your birthday, my dear Mother, I give you what I know you'll like best of anything else I might give you: the wonderful, sparkly words my oncologist said after my semi-annual checkup this morning: 

"Three years this month, and everything looks great.  I really do not think you are ever going to have a recurrence."

So blow out those candles, babe, and let's have some cake!  Birthdays Are Good!