Birthday Girls

My youngest sister has her birthday today. There are seven of us in the Stan and Val Hayes sibling clan and, suffice it to say, all of us have topped the birthdays where we would be eligible to run for president, should we choose so to do and two of us, good Lord, are entering the social security years. Yipes.

Anyway, here's Martha Jane, on the right, having a laugh with our mother, Val Hayes, around Memorial Day in 2006. Val and Mar share the same birthday month, May, and you can see that the traditional Culver's ice cream cake is once again occupying a place of birthday honor. Martha's two girls, Chloe and Emily (Em's a digital blur!) are witnessing the joyful smiles of mother and daughter.

Other typical Hayes ephemera in the photo: grape pop, which just might be part of the secret to long life;  Dad's computer desk; the bean jar lamp; somebody's hand holding a coffee mug.

Happy birthday, Martha!