My Beautiful, fun-loving Mother

I had to make a single post just for my mother. Here she is dressed in Christmas best with balloons and grandchilren waiting. My mother loves to have a good time and hasn't had as much of a chance in the last 20 years because she's had to take constant care of my autistic brother Sam. I'll never forget the time when we went to the beach one Januray near LA. . .I was about 12 and my brother karl 13. We had purchased some new body boards and were excited to try them out. When we got to the beach, we found the water freezing. As me and my brother shivered on the beach, too afraid to go in, my mother grabbed one of our boards, said, "Well if YOU"RE not going in. . ." and dove in. She body boarded for several hours that day. That's my mother. She's awesome.