Week 4 - Personal History

Tell me about your mother (hers name, birth date, birthplace, parents, etc.) Can you share some memories you have of your mother?

JACKIE:
My Mother, is a very beautiful lady. She is from a family of two younger brothers, she being the eldest and only daughter. Her name is Beverly Jane Meyer. She is a Junior to Beverly Cronin Lloyd, Her Mother. Sharing the same first name, Beverly. Apparently Mom, used Beverly until she told me around high school or soon after High School, where because she was not on school records as Beverly, decided that she wanted everyone to call her Jane. She always liked her middle name. It is also the same middle name I used for my first daughter Elizabeth Jane Wallenberg. Using Family History as my inspiration in her name, and hopefully my daughter will use her name legacy to further family history in her own family someday. So, what can I tell you about Mom...hum. Basically, I just adore her. She is funny, smart, witty, unusually different (compared to those boring old ladies Moms elsewhere,) educated, delightful and very lovely. She cares so much about everyone, she puts her own cares aside, her cleaning work, her day to day tasks, just so she can be with us kids. (And husband, my father, in wanting to do things together.) The big things I remember, is so many things we did! (Other families just don't get to, do things like we did.) Like we saw Disneyland what...three or four times? We saw plays the Phantom of the Opera...what two times in the Capital Theater? Comedy shows, plays on stages, eating out and trying so many restaurants, going to different places. For example, we traveled to Washington, California, Nevada, and Idaho (to name a few.) Things we saw and did were things Mom wanted to do. She and Dad liked to gather the family for vacations. She has helped me find spirituality, remain true to the True Church, believing in the fundamentals that makes up our church (The Book of Mormon); The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and viewing the world as our ancestors would. God has given me a wonderful Mother. I am so very proud to have a wonderful Mom, like her. 

STACY:
My mom is Beverly Jane Lloyd Meyer.  She is the oldest of three kids with two younger brothers.  Her parents are Beverly C. Lloyd and John Hugh Lloyd.  My mom's birthday is March 24th 1948 and she shares a birthday month with my sister Jenny.  She always said that Jenny was her birthday present. 
I am really close to my mom.  I talk to her about every day.  She is a really funny and fun person to be around.  We like to be sarcastic.  I think that Johnny has inherited her funny sarcasm.  My mom also really liked her paternal grandmother Grandma Gerdy.  They would hang out together and joke around and try to outsmart everyone.
My mom is a smart lady.  She received her Master's of Education from the University of Utah.  She also received teaching certificates and endorsements in Gifted and Talented.  She taught 7-9th grade English, History and Journalism.
My mom moved over to my middle school Crescent View when I was in 9th grade.  She taught the honors 7th grade reading and English and I was her teacher's assistant that year.  It was fun to have her at the same school as me.   She even taught Jeff when he was in 7th grade.
I remember a time when I did terrible at an assignment in college.  I called my mom devastated.  She told me, "well did your arms fall off or did your eyeball get poked out?"  "I'm like no..."  so, that made me laugh and put everything into perspective.
I always have a great time hanging out with my mom.  We have traveled to different places together with my family or just us alone.  Just my mom and I went to Belize for my friend Oanh's birthday and had a great time.  We are planning on going together to Chicago for the AIA convention.  It is nice to have a vacation and shopping buddy.