A repository of modern day maternal correspondence

Dad’s Arm Looks Like an Udder

Your Dad is playing outside with Dan & that boat motor. (His elbow seems some better & is black & blue; so he must have bruised it & didn’t notice it.  It still looks like a hanging udder, but I have enough flapping around myself in the upper under arm area!  Maybe we are just [...]

my menopausal brain is short circuiting

I am very excited about coming down on Friday night and going to the BEACH!!  It will give us some “bonding time”. Don’t worry, I have no agenda, I’m just using the old cliche. It will be fun spending time with you. You are a very intelligent woman and I learn alot every time we [...]

Save This Email And Remind Us

Dad and I will move to assisted living when we are 75.  Save this email and remind us that we promised to never make you deal with this - there will be plenty of other craziness we will put you through.
Cuz that’s why you have children!
Love , Mummy

It’s Hell To Get Old

FANX!!!!!!!!  For fixing the disposal!!!!!!  It’s hell to get old-I knew that the wrench thing was all it needed, but I would have had to bend down and put my reading glasses on and with shortterm memory, try to retain the concept of clockwise vs counterclockwise.  You are my best girl.

The Porcelain Launchpad

Your poor Dad has now been on the porcelain launchpad multiple times.  The first pill was at 6 pm and it is now 10ish, so they are fast-acting!
Love,
Mom

…Old Is Old

Backstory: I am turning 26 in a few weeks and am not excited about it. Thinking of staying 25 for another year.
Your life has just begun…..But 57 for me needs to stick around for a least 6 years. By that time it doesn’t matter if your 57 or 107… old is old.



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