After another one of my dad's attention-getting, smart-ass comments (thank God it skips generations!), someone asked my mom why she's never thrown anything at him. Without batting an eye, she replied, "Because if I missed him, I might break something valuable!"
From February 16, 2014
Not a Mom quote, but a special memory:
Mom used her liberty pass today. I took the folks to their church in Knoxville for the first time in close to a decade. Mom was overcome as soon as the music started. They both went up for communion and stood the entire time. Before the last hymn, the pastor called them both back up so that he could give them a parting prayer. He then invited people to come up for a laying on of hands while he prayed. About half the congregation came up. That's when I was overcome. As my folks walked up, my dad said, "She may be older than me, but notice who's using a cane!" (He was.) The pastor then said, "Behind every good man, there's an even better woman!" Someone in the congregation said, "Amen!" Yeah, he looked a little bit like me...
Facebook post from December of 2013
Oh, and thanks for all the texts of concern and support. Especially the ones that keep waking me up! It's all about me, remember? Mom kept asking where she was last night which is cause for concern, but nothing new. She kept apologizing to me last night, and I finally asked her why. "Because of the way your father's behaving!" So, there's still hope...
Some time in 2014
So, Mom's getting testy because dinner isn't ready. I tell her that dinner will be ready in two minutes.
"Two MINN-ITTS? Two MINN-ITTS?"
"Mom, are you mocking me?"
"You betcha!"
"Is that why you had kids; just so you could mock them?"
"Yep."
Being 90 has its privileges, I guess...
From my dad's "autobiography", all 130 single-spaced pages...
(While in the Army, for a couple of years or so, my dad was stationed in Kaiserslautern, Germany.)
"For exercise, I played basketball and ping pong. I twisted my ankle (playing basketball) and spent several weeks on crutches. I had a bout of strep throat in the Spring of 1956, so part of that time I watched while they paved our street. Bernice became pregnant."
I read this excerpt to my mom and when I read "Bernice became pregnant", she said, "I did that a lot!"
Some time in 2014, posted on Facebook
Here's your LOL for today: My sweet, lovely daughter went to visit my mom this evening. During their conversation, Laura told Mom that when Anne and I met her boyfriend's parents for the first time, she was nervous. Without missing a beat, my mom replied, "I would too if my dad was your dad!" Thanks, Mom...
From May 2014, posted on Facebook
As my dad's condition worsens, the bad days outnumber the good ones. Mentally, he's still sharp as a tack, but he can't put together more than two or three words at a time. Instead, we play "20 Questions" and hope that we ask the right question. Because he cannot tell us what he wants, he will simply express his frustration by yelling "Help!" or "Help me!" When the aides ask him what's wrong, he'll say, "Nothing."
Well, one of the aides told me last night that she knocked on the doors of the assisted living apartments to remind the residents that it was dinnertime, and my mom came out in the hallway yelling, "Help me! Help!" The aide asked, "Miss Mueller, what's wrong?"
My mom said, "Oh nothing. It seems to work for my husband, so I thought I'd give it a try."
Gotta love that 90 year old mom of mine! "Mueller" has definitely rubbed off on her!
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