3 posts tagged “mom”
Sorry for the absence. After Mom's passing, I had to really get my life into perspective. While I'm still a work in progress, I thopught it would be a good time to get everyone up to speed on how I'm doing.
I'm good. Great even. Not fan-fricking-tastic, but good.
I've lost 70 pounds. Yeah, it sounds like a lot, but when your BMI shows you need to lose another 30-40, it puts it all in perspective. The good news is that I'm fitting back into the suit I had made for me on my 21st birthday, back when I really was God's Gift to Women.
I'm uber l33t in Word of Warcraft. I'm a level 70 Gnome Warlock currently questing with my guild in Karazhan. For the uninitiated: I'm at the top of my game in an area of the game that requires 10 people, all at the top of their game, to group together. The point of it? To get the rewards for those people at the top of their game.
The wife now plays WoW together. She's getting to be a high level herself, and we started alternate characters together. That way she's not just relying on my big character to carry her through the hard parts.
We have a new 3 season porch we're loving, loving, loving and we're getting a new 1 1/2 stall garage.
I can't think of much else, besides sappy, weepy crap about how this Mother's Day hit me like a ninja kick to the nuts, but I think every holiday or special event will... and not just the first year after her death. It may be a bit late, but tell your Mom how much she means to you. Do it now. I didn't as often as I should and, because I had already sheduled a visit, I missed out by two weeks. I missed out telling my Dad by one week.under similar circumstances. God, in whatever format he exists in, has a sick fucking sense of irony. Maybe it's a lesson in telling people you love how much you appreciate them being in your life. Maybe it's a punishment for some commandment violated. Maybe it's a random event that has nothing to do with a diety, but a unfortunate coincidence. Whatever it is, learn from my mistake.
Ooh... I got all preachy: I must be getting back to "normal"...
What is your earliest memory?
Submitted by Megan.
Taking a bath in the big stainless steel kitchen sink in the house my family grew up in. It was literally big enough to bathe a baby in with no garbage disposal, thankfully! I remember it being high enough to see the world from the adults' points of view while being safe, warm and clean. It was a sad day when I was too big for the kitchen sink. I still wash my hair in the sink at my house once in a while just to recapture the magic.
Mom fell victim to a secondary infection that shut down her lungs and heart. My sister was with her during Mom's last few moments, exactly a day before I was supposed to be there. Mom died exactly two weeks after lapsing into a coma. She was in-urned a week after that. I was fortunate enough to place her ashes into the vault next to my Father's.
The past is gone. Only shreds of it remain with my siblings. My fond memories and childhood have been ripped from this plane and now are black and white, archival records of time long ago that can never, ever be relished in again without melancholy.
For those of you with living parents: Call them today for no other reason than to hear them. Visit them if possible. Pour through old photos with them and have the descriptions of each written on the back. Treat them extra kindly as their mortal coil may be sloughed all too soon.
My Mom's was.
Now I'm an orphan. Annie made it seem all so much more glamorous.
