I Remember Mother

• chatting with strangers like she'd known them all her life
  

• canning peaches on the breezeway on hot summer days

• always making sure we had frilly Easter dresses

• always giving us lots of Christmas presents and making sure we had an equal number of gifts

• letting all three of us kids watch "As The World Turns" with her

• watching "Queen for a Day" and all of us crying together over the sad stories

• cooking whatever we wanted for our birthday supper (no matter what it was!)

• frying chicken for a picnic lunch the night before our vacation road trips

• finishing endless crossword puzzles

• cooking homemade doughnuts in the deep fryer

• watching "Wheel of Fortune"

• baking her wonderful lemon pie which I loved

• struggling to shampoo my hair when I was five years old, because I was afraid of getting soap in my eyes

• making delicious date nut loaf (nobody else could make it like her)

• teaching me how to cook the traditional Thanksgiving cornbread dressing

• bestowing in us her love to read books

• loving us unconditionally

• being so happy that Mike and I are so happy

• being thrilled that I finally made her a grandmother

• watching and enjoying the Gaither Gospel videos

• always saying to us "Hi Darling", even the last few days of her life