Chewymom

Dear Mom,

If you were still here, I would have called you today to tell you that your grandson, DS16 won three gold medals at the Alabama Special Olympic Games yesterday! You would have been amazed at how he swam. So smooth and straight! Those years of “regular” swim team are paying off. Do you remember his first Special Olympics meet in Georgia? He was eight year old then, and he swam as an assisted swimmer. And here he is, eight years later, still swimming, still winning.

I also wanted to call you and chat with you about Mrs. G. who died this week. Remember the fun times I used to have playing at her house? Remember when she accidentally burned me on the arm with her cigarette at Brownies (oh the irony!)? Did you know she is having a Catholic burial? What’s up with that? She was always a “good Presbyterian!”

I wish you could see my house. For the first time in my life, I hired painters to come in and paint for me. They have done the laundry room, den, kitchen, foyer, and hall. My house is completely torn up and the kids have eaten fast food all week. These people have also tiled my kitchen and laundry rooms and are doing all kinds of other little jobs. All of the unfinished projects you would remember from your last visit here. You would be amazed! Of course, if you were coming to visit, I would scrub the place first, because right now it is a total disaster.

You were so glad I was going back to school. I wish you could have known that in spite of missing my finals last semester, due to your death, I managed to get As in both of my classes. I just got my grade for this semester, and I managed another A. I have a 4.0! Something you always told me I was smart enough to do, but I was too busy with my social life to be bothered with that much studying. I’m still working to bring up that 2.3 from Furman! Amazing that I thought I didn’t have the time to study then, and yet here I am with 5 children, 6 pets, juggling all that that entails, and getting As. And who would have thought I would become interested in science? The irony of the fact that my first Cs EVER in school were in high school biology, and now I have made As in Anatomy and Physiology would not be lost on you. If you knew all of this, the main thing you would say is that you wish Dad could be around to see my GPA. As a college professor, he would appreciate it more than anyone!

Anyway, Mom, I am missing you on this first Mother’s Day without you. I miss the little things we would discuss, the chit-chat we would enjoy, the pride you would show in your grandkids’ accomplishments. Also, Mom, I am thankful that you and Dad kept trying to have children for eighteen years, even though it meant that you were older parents. Thank you for giving life to me and my brother. Even with the grief and sorrow we have suffered with losing you and Dad while we are still fairly young, and even though I griped and complained my way through high school because you were so “old fashioned,” I am thankful.

Happy Mother’s Day, Mom. I love you.

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