Mother's Day

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me and Mom on my wedding day, April 8, 1978

Mom with Peter in 1982

Mom and Lesley in 1981

Mom at around age 5

Lesley, with her cousins Lauren and Kelly, dressed up in my mother's old clothes; photo circa 1991

a list in the back of her devotional book

with some of the names of people she prayed for every day;

she also prayed for every world leader daily;

and of course she prayed for us kids every day too

When Don, the kids and I moved to Istanbul in 1986, she had put cards and gifts in Lesley's and Peter's backpacks to open at the start of each flight of the long journey:

1. Detroit to New York

2. New York to Frankfurt

3. Frankfurt to Istanbul

One of the cards had a music-playing chip inside that started playing Zippidy-doo-da when you opened it. The kids had that card in their toy box for at least two years, the cover eventually ripped off and just the inner white card with the tiny white button that would play when you pushed it. One day it suddenly played Happy Birthday instead of Zippidy-doo-da. I guess chips like that have more than one song in them.

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