Janie at 79

Can you believe that my beautiful mother is going to be 79 tomorrow. She hardly looks a day over 50! Since I have to take Carter to get her passport renewed tomorrow I went up to the farm today to take my mother out to lunch today. There is nothing my mother likes better than someone else buying her lunch.  
It was a bonus day for her because she cut her crab cake in half to take as her lunch tomorrow at bridge. I wish that someone else was taking her to lunch on her actual birthday, but that would interfere with bridge. So a left over half a crab cake that someone else bought her will make the perfect birthday lunch.
Every birthday is important, but I feel like when you are going to be 79 they should be even more celebrated. But my mom does great for someone half her age. She wins at bridge multiple times a week. Teaches art and paints her own paintings everyday. Reads multiple books a week. And the most amazing thing is free hand needlepoints, which means she does not have anything already painted on the canvas. To top it off she can discuss both college and professional football as if she has a show on ESPN.
If you know my Mom, send her a shout out today. She might not hear it, that is the one thing that is going at her age, but she will eventually read it. Don’t expect a response you will understand. She has never quite mastered key boarding. She does not capitalize or use punctuation, with the exception of using a comma as an apostrophe. All typed communication is one run-on sentence you think is written by e.e.cummings. That’s just my very artistic mother who says, “Well, you understood what I was saying.”  
Understand this Mom, “I love you!!!” I meant to use those three exclamation points. I really like punctuation, but not as much as I like you. Happy Birthday!