Mummy is turning 79 on Sunday, which is also Mother's Day. She has been recuperating from breaking her ankle a few weeks ago, she had the screws taken out of her fibula and tibia yesterday.

Circa 1934.

I remember her when she was 34 and just learning to drive a car. So strange that my memories go back so far.

1950.

Mummy spent two years at Michigan State, and purposely flunked her fencing class because she was so embarrassed by it.

Circa 1970.

She wore this olive green dress to weddings and funerals in the 1960s and early 1970s.

2009, photo by Richard Whitmer.

I bought a digital picture frame and loaded it with 160 family photos- I think she will enjoy that for a birthday present.