Photo by Larry Mohr
Honestly, I don’t know where my mom gets this stuff.
The day was particularly windy. When Mom got back from walking the dog, she put both hands on her head to tame her hair and said,
“It’s really windy out there. It makes you want to take your wig off.”
I haven’t laughed so hard since I don’t know when.
My mom does not wear a wig! I asked where she got such an expression and she answered that someone said that to her about forty years ago and she hadn’t heard it since.
Really? Great quips can lie dormant for forty years and then wake up on just the right day?
Maybe other great memories are the same way. They’re in our brains somewhere, and we can tease them out and use them to bring a moment into focus, or just to lighten someone’s day.
I laughed and laughed at your moms saying. My mom was also pretty funny at times but my earliest memory of her was when I was 3 years old and we lived across the street from a park. She took me there quite alot. I loved it when she would swing me up really high and we sang Do You Know The Muffin Man together. She’s been gone since 1997 and not a day goes by that I don’t think of her and miss her so much.
Debra, thanks for reading the posts. Mom is slowing down at age 86, but if she says something hilarious I will be sure to do a post. Warm memories of our mothers are such a precious gift as we go through our own years, aren’t they?