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So today is Mother’s Day in the United States. Today we honor our mother’s by purchasing flowers for them from the guy on the street corner who got them from scouring the cemeteries the day before, giving them a day off from doing our laundry, and if they were REALLY good… we’ll let them take us out to eat at the restaurant we want to go to. Yes… we honor our mother’s oh so very well.

This year however, I went a little above and beyond. I got my mom a Kodak Digital Picture Frame. The fact is my mom, not unlike myself, has a shitload of pictures in photo albums. The problem is… she doesn’t get to see the pictures nearly as much as she would like. So I decided to get her the frame with a 2GB SD Memory Card. Of course… my mom doesn’t have a digital camera and all her old prints are from 110 film sized frames (yes… there once was a film size called 110… I know… hard to believe that 35mm and digital did not always rule the world…) and to be honest… the colors are WAY off. Still… I think that’s part of the charm.

So besides dropping some digital images I had… I also scanned a couple pictures from a photo album that mom left laying around. Once I give her the frame… then I’ll let her either pick and choose the photos or just hand the albums over so I can spend oodles of time scanning them in for her and then dropping them on the 2GB card… especially considering I only filled 86MB of it with the photos I had.

Some of the pictures of course feature my grandmother… who insisted that she was in fact the incredible shrinking woman when she turned 75. I tend to agree. My mother herself also seems to be shrinking more and more each day. Even as I type this… she is probably losing altitude. It’s probably a genetics thing.

So here is one of the pictures I scanned from the album. My mother had black hair back then, and my grandmother had already started the shrinking. Needless to say, by looking at this photo from 1983, I have white hair and severe shrinkage in my future…