Barbara BB Bold couldn t celebrate her son s 60th birthday. Judy Levin canceled her flight to California to visit her daughter whom she hadn t seen in a year to quarantine from COVID-19 in Milwaukee. Shirley Langer, 92, likened the past year to wartime America.
But on Sunday, these mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers dressed to impress in anticipation of seeing their family members face-to-face for Mother s Day some for the first time in a year.
By 10 a.m., the front lobby of Ovation Communities in east Milwaukee was already buzzing with multiple generations of sons and daughters faces covered and gifts in hand arriving to see their mothers in person . This time, they d forgo Facetime.