I'm a mom now, but I'm still my mother's daughter...Happy Mother's Day, Mom.
1.) I’m 5 and sitting at the counter at Sanders restaurant eating mashed potatoes and chocolate milk. I haven’t seen Vernor’s ice cream anywhere else.
2.) Blue curlers. I used to be embarrassed by them. Then, my 15 month old daughter wanted them in her hair.
3.) Watching her plant petunias around the lamppost every Spring.
4.) Sunday pot roast.
5.) Coffee, coffee and more coffee.
6.) Watching her laugh so hard at an episode of “Cheers” she fell off the couch
7.) Saks. Bonwit Teller. Jacobsen’s. Nordstrom’s. Her sense of style. Simple and elegant.
8.) Abounding love between her and my father
9.) Art books, Architectural Digest, Vogue, People
10.) How I broke her heart the day I moved West.
11.) Her house, her canvas.
12.) Rod Stewart.
13.) Slow dancing with my father at my wedding
14.) How she lights up around sister, Gloria
15.) Cranbrook Academy of Art.
16.) Because of her, we know art & beauty
17.) Not particularly fond of exercise.
18.) Dinner? Sure! Where?
19.) A nightly glass of Chardonnay.
20.) After 50+ years with Hank, she called him “my guy”.
21.) The sound of her voice when I gave her the news I had a daughter of my own.
22.) A good golf swing.
23.) Knitting? Needlepoint? Crocheting? No way…
24.) “Spirited Discussions” with my father about current events.
25.) Shredded a teacher to bits that publicly humiliated me.
26.) Could sport a bikini at 50.
27.) Watched the Wizard of Oz with me every year.
28.) Scrabble.
29.) Everything neatly folded.
30.) Her voice and spirit defy her age
31.) Words of wisdom when I needed them most
32.) She was a real trooper to go camping on those Florida holidays
33.) Every Monday for 30+ years, volunteering at the hospital
34.) Vanilla ice cream with lime and coconut – for the Bridge Club
35.) Quite literally, tearing the shirt off my brother’s back because it wasn’t fit to be worn
36.) Watching she and my dad watch golf
37.) Her courage when she had heart surgery
38.) Her delight in pretty things
39.) Her trusty side stroke in swimming
40.) There is only one person in the world with handwriting like that
41.) Fun dinner parties
42.) Letting me spend Sunday mornings watching Shirley Temple movies
43.) Going to church for her kids’ sake
44.) I love the story of how after her 6th baby, the nurses thought it was her 1st because...
45.) …my dad always brought her an orchid after the birth of each baby
46.) C’est la guerre!
47.) Her hugs can be felt over the phone from thousands of miles away
48) Before Caller ID, she could answer the phone with your name – how DID she do that?!
49.) She always sends pretty cards
50.) She could take a name like Geraldine Agnes and make it snazzy by calling herself Jer.
1.) I’m 5 and sitting at the counter at Sanders restaurant eating mashed potatoes and chocolate milk. I haven’t seen Vernor’s ice cream anywhere else.
2.) Blue curlers. I used to be embarrassed by them. Then, my 15 month old daughter wanted them in her hair.
3.) Watching her plant petunias around the lamppost every Spring.
4.) Sunday pot roast.
5.) Coffee, coffee and more coffee.
6.) Watching her laugh so hard at an episode of “Cheers” she fell off the couch
7.) Saks. Bonwit Teller. Jacobsen’s. Nordstrom’s. Her sense of style. Simple and elegant.
8.) Abounding love between her and my father
9.) Art books, Architectural Digest, Vogue, People
10.) How I broke her heart the day I moved West.
11.) Her house, her canvas.
12.) Rod Stewart.
13.) Slow dancing with my father at my wedding
14.) How she lights up around sister, Gloria
15.) Cranbrook Academy of Art.
16.) Because of her, we know art & beauty
17.) Not particularly fond of exercise.
18.) Dinner? Sure! Where?
19.) A nightly glass of Chardonnay.
20.) After 50+ years with Hank, she called him “my guy”.
21.) The sound of her voice when I gave her the news I had a daughter of my own.
22.) A good golf swing.
23.) Knitting? Needlepoint? Crocheting? No way…
24.) “Spirited Discussions” with my father about current events.
25.) Shredded a teacher to bits that publicly humiliated me.
26.) Could sport a bikini at 50.
27.) Watched the Wizard of Oz with me every year.
28.) Scrabble.
29.) Everything neatly folded.
30.) Her voice and spirit defy her age
31.) Words of wisdom when I needed them most
32.) She was a real trooper to go camping on those Florida holidays
33.) Every Monday for 30+ years, volunteering at the hospital
34.) Vanilla ice cream with lime and coconut – for the Bridge Club
35.) Quite literally, tearing the shirt off my brother’s back because it wasn’t fit to be worn
36.) Watching she and my dad watch golf
37.) Her courage when she had heart surgery
38.) Her delight in pretty things
39.) Her trusty side stroke in swimming
40.) There is only one person in the world with handwriting like that
41.) Fun dinner parties
42.) Letting me spend Sunday mornings watching Shirley Temple movies
43.) Going to church for her kids’ sake
44.) I love the story of how after her 6th baby, the nurses thought it was her 1st because...
45.) …my dad always brought her an orchid after the birth of each baby
46.) C’est la guerre!
47.) Her hugs can be felt over the phone from thousands of miles away
48) Before Caller ID, she could answer the phone with your name – how DID she do that?!
49.) She always sends pretty cards
50.) She could take a name like Geraldine Agnes and make it snazzy by calling herself Jer.
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