Always Prepared
We all know that being a mom means you always need to be prepared for any kind of situation. I tell you, my mom experienced just about every kind imaginable. Oh the stories… But she was even prepared to leave us even though she didn’t know she’d be leaving so soon. The night she passed my sister found a paper clipping (that would become the back of her mass card) in mom’s wallet. Then a few months later, while I was tasked with the job of sorting out the house, a Better Homes and Gardens cook book fell from the shelf I was organizing. From that old cook book, with a duct taped spine, came a poem written in my mom’s distinctive penmanship. I read it and wept.