I bought my mom a card which I will take over tomorrow. Today I took her a huge bouquet of lilacs from my yard, which she was thrilled to pieces with
and then I took her to dinner at Chili's and out shopping for the afternoon. I wanted to get her something but she keeps insisting that the clothes I got her a couple of weeks ago are enough. What can I say? I learned long ago not to argue with mama!
My brother did the most outstanding thing for her this week. I just have to share it with you all. He took her out to the local car dealership and had her test drive two cars "just for fun". Then he asked which one she liked best and promptly bought it for her! I am soooooooooo happy that he was able to do that for Mom. Her old car was in such bad shape it was getting dangerous. By the way, we're not talking a "new used" car. We talking brand spanking new! It's the first brand new car she has ever owned in her whole life. She just grins from ear to ear when she's showing it off. It's so fun to watch her with it
We were talking tonight and she was telling me (with no small amount of pride in her voice
) that all the old people in her senior citizen apartment complex tell her all the time that she has the best group of kids they've ever seen. We just do what you aught to do for you mom. We shovel her snow when it snows, plant her flowers and weed them in the summer. Over the 4th of July she and my aunts are going on a weekend trip. While she's gone, we're all going in and repainting her whole apartment for her. We take her shopping, carry her groceries in; our kids go over and carry out her garbage and haul her laundry to the laundry room. Those kinds of things. Nothing big. But sadly, you don't see the adult kids of the other people in her complex even coming to visit their parents. I don't get it. Maybe because I have the best Mom in the whole world.
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