我妈妈大约1977年……和现在

She is pretty fantastic. The recent photo is her helping me in my “city garden”. She lives in the mountain wilderness and has basically become a wonderful little woodland witch, foraging for mushrooms, posting pictures of scat on Facebook, concocting tinctures and salves, and trading her goods with others like her in her little community. Edit: scat. As in animal poop. She will come across it on her walks, dig through it with a stick and then usually post the picture in Facebook with a caption like, “looks like the little fox is eating well!” Or “looks like we’ve got an owl around here!” Sometimes she will post something thinking it was some cool animal, and it just ends up being dog poop. Oops! Edit 2: I don’t think I can edit the post, so I’ll put this here. I definitely didn’t think that this would get this much attention. I had to fess up to my mom yesterday morning about what I did. She thinks the idea of strangers talking to each other and sharing stuff about themselves en masse is crazy. She read the comments and blushed and roller her eyes a lot. She thinks it’s very sweet, but also weird. She is not single and my dad is also a catch—she is thankful for the horny police. As far as her skin care routine, she makes her own stuff that is mostly coconut oil, beeswax, and whatever other carrier oils she has, then tea tree or whatever else she thinks will work. We call it “Mama’s magic”. We use it for our hands, lips, face, and my sisters have used it for diaper rash on their little ones. Nothing special, but simple is usually best anyway! She also makes kefir every week and starts every day with it. Thanks to her, my dad will be living a long, healthy life as well. (Don’t tell him, but I know where his cookie and chocolate stash is!) As far as hitting the gene lottery, I don’t think I did. My mom and my bio father were both lookers and still are, but I think it skipped me. My little sis got all the goodness (and no, she is not single, you horny weirdos!). I got the predisposition for gaining weight, got some shitty health issues, and I have discovered that maybe I’m not very resilient…? I don’t know…I’ve had some tough times and they hit me hard emotionally and some are still hard to shake off. However, my mother’s spirit, love, and curiosity in all that is nature and life was definitely passed down to me. So I am not complaining. Life is pretty fantastic! And to those who mentioned losing their moms—fuck, I can’t even imagine, although I know that that time will come. She knows how special she is to all of us, yet we continue to remind her that she’s pretty darn awesome every day.

Got to imagine living healthy, and being someone who is happy in life has played a part in it too. That warm radiant smile in the second picture speaks to the person she is.

One of her sisters looks so much like Streep. It’s in the chin and the cheeks, I think.

She reminds me more of a young Kathryn Hahn.

Agreed! She was pretty in 1977, but in a normal way. Now she’s legit the kind of woman I would look twice at in a crowd and think “gosh, what a beautiful woman”. I think it’s that her bone structure really suits an older face. And her eyes look so warm and wise. I can only dream of ageing that well 😫

I literally gasped and thought about how beautiful she is. She definitely has gotten more attractive with age.

This is how unproblematic people age.

OP got them good genes.

I'm 39 and I'm double taking right now

> Jane Seymour The wife of Henry VIII?

I was looking for this image before reading the comments….

I'm asking for you too, champ.

And then if that doesn’t work out, she can hmu

That’s because she’s sitting down.

Or Leelee Sobieski

Go directly to horny jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200