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I've been thinking a lot about my mom this week. 

This image is actually a re-work of blog 54 from 2008.  Comparing the two, I did some color correction and a fair amount of touch-up work.

Humorously

As seen Tuesday morning.  My husband has a sense of humor.

Worriedly

Enduringly

20 years after yesterday's blog, and she was still hard at it.

Rivetingly

This is a pretty unassuming picture, except for the fact that it epitomizes my mom.  Everything about it.  Glasses off and hunched over a book.  A piece of advertising for a bookmark.  Paperwork to be handled sitting under the book, because the book was more interesting.  A calculator for doing "figure work" as she called it.  A small glass of 7up.  Remains of a snack.  Chaos in the background.  Coupon caddy for when she got around to cutting out coupons.  This was a common sight while I was growing up.

This image is from a slide I took while in college.  It was an under-exposed reject at the time; probably just to use up the roll so I could get it developed. 

But now, now it is a treasured memory.