Frances' Birthday

It is number 93 for Mom Frances today. Can you just imagine all the changes in her lifetime?

She carried water from a well to her house to cook, bathe, and wash clothes. They washed in tubs outside over a fire and hung them on a line. They cooked on wood cookstoves and hauled the wood for that. She was creative and did hand work like crochet and worked as a seamstress. She remodeled her house, building cabinets and moving walls and much more.

She and husband, Jesus, raised nine children. She worked for all those years. Jesus died in 1964 and she continued working with 3 kids still at home, finished high school and became a teacher's aide where she retired years later.

She lived on her own, driving and caring completely for herself until about 2 1/2 years ago. She moved into assisted living in Albuquerque to keep her independence and not have to live with a daughter.

I talked with her on iChat a few minutes ago. She is amazed at the technology and was figuring out what Gene's new computer has that her orange iMac doesn't. She still turns on the computer once in a while. She makes a rosary every day and has for many years. She and Gene figured out she has made well over 10,000. Wow! She is a walking history book, right.

Here she is in 2005 at a reception for the Queens of the Magdalena Old Timers Reunion.

Frances in 2008.

Frances in October 2009.


And Frances at last year's birthday.

Happy Birthday Mom Frances!