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Things I Need To Remember

6/10/2015

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    Last Thursday Tom and I drove from Columbus to Seaford, Delaware to visit my mother.
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    Though she’ll be turning 95 in two weeks my mother still looks – and is – phenomenal.


    My mother is still able, with the help of her friend and household-helper Fran (see post from 5/28/2014)
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 to keep a lovely, spotlessly clean home:
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     I say spotlessly clean, though the walls don’t lack for decorative hangings nor the spaces and surfaces for assorted  knick-knacks and curios .
   
Whenever I visit my mother I find myself wandering through the house as one would through the rooms of a museum, studying the photos and pictures,  touching the vases and figurines, charmed and captivated as a child by all the pretty objects
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    But one time during this visit as I was taking a turn around the house the thought hit me:  After I leave in a few days how many more times will I see my mother? How many more times will I be able to walk around her house and look at her things,  all the colorful objets d'art  that are my mother's material ties to this life and the people she loves? 
     I wished there were some way to keep my mother and everything in her house frozen in time and memory, right where they are, forever.
    And then I remembered:  that's what cameras are for.

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Molina
6/10/2015 10:25:20 am

Patti, how blessed you are to have her....your mom is lovely. Thanks for sharing her!

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Mary Jane
6/10/2015 11:41:04 am

Your mom is such an amazing person.

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Patti
6/10/2015 12:21:53 pm

Thanks, MaryJane and Molina

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Rory O'Mara
6/10/2015 01:35:16 pm

Wish I met your Mom. She seems so enchanting.

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Patti
6/10/2015 10:46:34 pm

Thanks Rory. By funny coincidence, our parents knew each other quite well as I think our fathers might have gone to med school together and of course your dad was my and my sibs' pediatrician. My mom always talked about what a good pediatrician your dad was because she felt he understood how hard having young children could sometimes be on young mothers. Of course, your dad - and mom - would have understood this, having 6 (or was it 8) kids of their own!

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Marianne
6/11/2015 01:14:18 am

Thanks for reminding me to be more mindful the next I visit my mother, who is nearly as old as yours, but who will, no doubt, think I'm being ridiculous if I start taking pictures.

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Michelle
6/21/2015 10:07:12 am

I love your mom....she was always the quintessential hostess, warm, welcoming, gracious and always cooking. She always made every visit
special.I miss her being around the corner.

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Patti
6/21/2015 10:39:04 am

Thank you, Michelle. I know she misses your family, too, and especially her best friend, your mom.

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