Day: July 17, 2020

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Still Wanna Hug My Mother. Right Now!

Giving Mom a hug has been on my mind all day, so slides of her are what y’all get here. I know that if you’ve met Mom, you adore her, so that works out well for all of us.

In the first picture, my brother Ron shows up in his Bow Tie o’ the Day again. It’s a dapper outfit. I think the baby Mom’s holding in one of the photos is my brother, Rob. The picture of Mom eating on the porch in her slippers is a gem, but my personal fave photo here is of Mom fishing in her curlers. That’s one thing I’ve never done in my life. I must put it on my Bucket List. Note to self: Buy curlers and fishing pole.

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Just Sayin’

This is one of my favorite photos of my mother. She looks so pretty, despite clearly being under the weather. She wrestled with her own depression demons, at a time when nobody talked about such things. Still, she never gave up on getting through the storm. Notice that she’s reading her scriptures.

TIE O’ THE DAY has only one thing to say this morning, and I’m yelling it in my head: IT HAS BEEN 122 DAYS SINCE I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO HUG MY MOM, AND I DON’T LIKE IT ONE BIT! I understand the reasons it has to be so, and I’m grateful Millard Care and Rehab keeps her so very safe and entertained. But understanding why something has to be the way it is does not make it any easier for me to not hug my mother for 122 days in a row. A hug over the phone is just not the real thing.