Mother and Dad, Christmas 
Medicare: signed, sealed and about to be delivered three months from now.I was apprehensive about meeting with SSA today. When mother divorced my birth dad and married again she changed our last names to his without him ever adopting us. Since I was never adopted I had no legal papers explaining how my birth certificate name differed from the name I used until marrying. I once asked mother if this would be a legal problem later in life and she said, no – as long as no fraud was intended it was okay. Maybe, maybe not but it didn’t present any problems today. Next year: social security. There are definitely perks to getting older!
