Sheils Writes

My mom is 90.  I just called her.  I’m lucky.  I told her, “hey, guess what?”, she said, “what, ugh, this phone, can I turn the sound up?”  Anyways, I said, “you know, you were 58 when you had your first grandchild, I’ll be 58 when I have my first”.  She said, “wow, isn’t that interesting”.  Then she said, “this world today, I don’t know” and “I messed up that word thing (Wordle), again”.

I told her “I want to do a blog post about you for Mother’s Day”.  She said, “a what?”.  I asked, “before you met Dad, what did you do?”.  Mom said, “I worked in New York (for CBS), but the days were long and I just wanted to get home and go to bed, I learned quickly it wasn’t for me”.

Oh and hey, I said, “I was 27 when I had my first child, and you were 27 when you had your first child”.  She said, “wow, this is funny how this could go on & on”.  Yeah, it’s pretty neat.  Then my other line rang & she said “ok bye then”. 

I love calling my Mom.