Happy Birthday Jaymie

Keeping with the tradition of me posting birthday wishes late, my oldest child Jaymie turned 27 this week. That makes me feel older than all the aches, pains and gray hairs combined. But that’s a good “old” feeling. She has always had the uncanny ability to make me feel old for no reason. Once I was driving her to school and the song “Da Da Da (I Don’t Love You You Don’t Love Me)” by Trio came on the radio. I think it was being used as part of an ad campaign at the time but I can’t exactly remember. So I said to her “You know, that song was the first 45 I ever bought.”

Without missing a beat, turning her head to look at me or even cracking a smile, she said “What’s that? One of those record things you’re always going on about?” She totally stopped me in my tracks, I took my eyes off the road and just said “Shut up.” That’s when the smile came out.

And as you can tell from the picture with my granddaughter Gabryale, Jaymie has a great smile.