Happy Presidents' Day!

Lucy "Honest Abe" O'Mara wishes you a happy and relaxing Presidents' Day!

A favorite bath game at our house is the bubble bath beard.

Remembering Jack Dana

Today would have been my Grandpa Dana's 90th birthday.  He died exactly one year before Lucy's birth and I wish he would have been able to meet her and see how amazing she is and to see me as a mother.  Although he never met Lucy I am glad he was able to meet David.  I remember when David and I were visiting him, probably the first time I introduced them ... at the time I was still planning to return to San Diego where I had lined up a job.  I was explaining about the job I had accepted and that David and I would be dating long distance and he just turned and looked at David and said something like "How the hell is that going to work?"  Well I guess that was the wisdom of a life well-lived speaking (with the benefit of foregoing subtlety in your 80's) because not long after that I decided I better stick around Reno to see where things went with David and we were engaged not long after.

December, 2005 in Concord, CA.

The old adage is that a woman usually marries a man like her father, but David has always reminded me more of my grandpa.  He was a very patient person with a quiet faith.  In his youth I think my grandpa had a build similar to David's.   He enjoyed cooking and entertaining and a good margarita, he seldom complained, and he knew how to love an intense woman like my grandmother, Thelma, who passed away last March. 

I have many fond memories of my Grandpa and will be remembering him in a special way today, which I will always remember each year as his birthday.  So here's to my Grandpa on this February 9, may he rest in peace.