My mother knows my attitude about flowers and funerals - I think you give the flowers while the person is still alive instead of putting them on a grave, and you let the person know how you feel while they can still appreciate it, instead of saving it all up for everyone else in a eulogy when they are gone.
On Monday, my mother will be 95 years old. That is a grand age, and one well worth celebrating. She is a quiet person, and hates to be the center of attention, so we are having a small family party, not a large affair. But I am a proud daughter, not because she is 95, but because she is the person she is at any age. So I feel a need to brag about her a little bit, to let the world know the person I get to see all the time.
