[islandfamily]

I remember when I was about to turn 30 (I'm 40 now), my mom took me to her favorite swanky dept store and marched me up to the cosmetics counter where she demanded wrinkle cream...for me. She leaned over and said, "You should have this, now that you're about to be (whisper) thirty!"

I laughed and told my mom I was proud to be 30, she didn't need to whisper! She gave me the hairy eyeball and said, "I wasn't whispering for YOUR sake...these people don't know I have children that old!"

Because I was her youngest, and 13 years younger than my brother, that had me rolling in the floor. It still cracks me up!

Poor Mama...she passed away very suddenly in 2004, or else I am sure for my 40th birthday I'd have been treated to Botox!