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Stayed up til 1:10 am last night; it's the fortieth
in Married Life
anniversary of the day and time my mother died. It's such a beautiful day; she loved this time of year, and the honeysuckle out back are blooming and are from a cutting from a bush she planted years ago. I wish she could see my boys; wish she could come over for coffee, wish wish wish. She'd be 84 (bday was the 27th). Love you, mama.
SO SINGS MY SOUL *WHAM!* MY SAVIOR GOD TO THEE *WHAM!* HOW GREAT THOU ART *WHAM!* HOW GREAT THOU ART *WHAM!*
Re: Stayed up til 1:10 am last night; it's the fortieth
Today Instead of Working
Thanks folks. I'm not sad, really; just wishing.
ds2 asked me once if I thought she would have liked him. I laughed, and cried; yep. I am sure she would have.
Soon to celebrate the day we met, even if the day before marks when we said goodbye.
((suesue))
Tell us a story about your mom.
awwww, hugs.
Yeah that's right my name's Yauch!
I wish she could see you and your kids too. I love that you have a honeysuckle bush she started.
(hugs)
I remember sitting beside her on her bed and looking with her into her second dresser drawer, where she kept her fancy evening bag, and her mink stole, and her dressy cardigans with the beads. She let me play with the mink, and put a little of her cologne on, and we just laid across the bed and talked about nothing. I still have her dresser, I love the way the drawer pulls click when they fall on the metal backing, I heard that every morning when I was a kid.
I remember one time when I was in a fight with all my meanie friends (I was about 10) I gave her my birthday wish list and it included wishes for like twelve different pets, because 'all my friends hate me". She gave me a big hug and brushed my hair for a while, and kissed my forehead and told me to go out there and make up, and I did, and she was happy for me and waved at me out of the window in the kitchen. I got a kitten for my birthday though, from her, had her for 15 years.
I remember laying on the couch with my head in her lap, and she would pet my hair.
I remember I stayed a weekend with her favorite sister, my Aunt Virginia, and when Aunt V brought me home, we all three got to sit at the table and have coffee and pecan sandies together. I still love the taste of them.
I remember shopping with her for the material and pattern for the outfit she made for me for my 11th birthday party. It was a navy sleeveless tunic with navy pants with teeny flowers on them, and a scarf made from the pants fabric. I loved it. She had her grandmother's old Singer treadle machine and she'd let me work the foot pedal while she sewed. I have a Singer machine because she had one.
There are lots of memories. I remember babysitting the next door kid, he was two, and calling her in the hospital for baby advice because I didn't know what to do with him. She gave me some general cheerful advice (she knew she was dying, I didn't) on being kind and listening to the kids all the time and remember they don't get to pick a lot of things for themselves so let them pick stuff to do if you can. Only child rearing advice I ever got from her.
I remember going to the hospital to see her on my 12th bday, she was sitting up in bed, hair done, had makeup on, a pretty lavender nightie and robe. She gave me a card with 5 dollars in it (I still have the card) and sang happy birthday to me, with two other of my siblings there, and my dad. She was very cheerful and we talked a lot about my school, and teacher, and general stuff.
Marle, it gets easier to remember all those little things that hurt too much to recall so early on. I'm grateful for that. It's good, too, when you raise your kids you'll remember things out of the blue, and when you love your kids to pieces you'll suddenly think MY MOTHER FELT THIS ABOUT ME, and it feels really good.
Those memories are so lovely, Sue. Thank you for sharing!
Today Instead of Working
Soon to celebrate the day we met, even if the day before marks when we said goodbye.
Thank you for sharing those wonderful memories.
You stories and Marle's sig have me crying real tears over here.
ETA: corrected for the freudian slip.