Happy Birthday to my Mother!!!

Today is my mothers birthday and I want to take a moment to wish her the very best for the day and the rest of the week. Its also around this time that she is retiring after many years of working as a nurse. She will be able to devote more time to her one great love of gardening and maintaining what we as a family call the "millenium garden" as it was started around the turn of the century. More about the millenium garden another time, I do know that my mother will still do about 1 day a week as she has many friends where she works/worked and she wishes to keep in touch with them. But for now I will say "Happy Birthday mother". In every one of us there are certain characteristics that only after many years do we recognise and I am happy to have some of her ways and nuances. We often dont realise the subtle impact our parents have on us over the course of our childhood and early adulthood and some of us even rebel against it in our teenage angst but it is undeniable that part of your makeup as a person will also be part of both your parents makeup and in that way there is an undeniable link from generation to generation.