a Tuesday morning
in an hour I must leave to be with Wally...
and yesterday my mother moved north!
the furnace guys just came
{we've been without heat these past two days, on both sides...apartment and home!?!?}
I asked our son who lives on the b-side if he was warm enough, if he wanted his blue jean quilt?
he said he was fine in bed...it's the getting up!
It'll feel good to have heat again...
It's always a question in what state I'll find Wally, and how our visit goes...
and I really don't know how the mom being so near after all these years will be!?!?
I tried to get her to move here, into our town.
I could pick her up on my way to grocerying, or shopping...or to courey's...
or she could easily come for Sunday dinnners...
But she choose to move about an hour from here?!?
Maybe she's not ready to give up her independence...
It'll be interesting...
How often will we visit?
Will she come here?
Will we go there?
What about the holidays?!?!
those moms
I had the strangest thought this morning as I was waking up.
My husband's mom died at 49. They had a 15 year old son and a 12 year old daughter, still at home...
a 18 year old daughter about to start college in the fall and a 19 year old, still at home...
my husband and his older sister were married and out of the house.
My thought was "she never had the chance to sleep in."
I don't sleep in late, usually we're up rather early...
I like to get my computer time in early in the day...
But for all those years with the kids and school and papers...being up at 6:00...out the door by seven...
She never had that luxury.
I've thought of so many other things she's missed the weddings, the grandkids, birthdays, graduations...
the milestones of our lives
But just that little thing I have experienced now that our kids are gone..
sleeping in
I missed her
and wonder
just what do you do in heaven?!?
I have my mom
and the blessing of now having her near
I wonder what it'll be like?
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