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Tomorrow will be 2 years since my Mom died.
If that weren't sad enough, today I received a letter from my brother (the one who was still speaking to me when Mom died; however, we parted ways over a year ago, when DH called him to check on him, as we hadn't heard from him in months--and my brother spent 40 minutes yelling at DH on the phone, saying awful things about me. I never called him back.). On the back of the envelope, in his wife's handwriting (he is paralyzed, and finds writing very difficult): "Sorry we took so long to get this to you; Mom wanted you to have it, etc." Inside, was a handwritten note from Mom, with 20 English pounds: "This is the last thing my mother gave to be before she died; give to Marge after I die." I started crying; there's something about seeing someone's handwriting after they died. I sometimes get out my friend Alice's letters to me; she died in 2002; she was my best friend. My Grandmother died in 1983, BTW. Mom kept the money all of these years.
Last year, I took June 5th off from work, but I will be at work tormorrow, so I don't know how I'll be.
I will wear the silver charm bracelet I started in Mom's honor. She was from Birmingham, and her parents were gold/silversmiths, with a shop attached to their house. Birmingham is famous for its silver, so I bought a sterling silver charm bracelet from there, which was hallmarked in my birth year. I attached various sterling silver charms representing Mom. She always talked about charm bracelets, but I don't think she ever had one; she never wore bracelets. I think she'd like this, though!
Also, I picked some red roses from my garden, and will put them on my desk at work. When she sold the house, I took a cutting from the rose bush that was always there. I did root it, but it died. The next year, though, the same one sprouted up many feet away! Lordy, how she hated that red rose bush! She always tried to kill it, but it wouldn't die! (She hated the color red.)
I'll also have my traditional bit of Cadbury chocolate bar tomorrow. Mom seldom ate sweets, but she loved Cadbury bars.
Do you think I should exchange the money for dollars, and put it toward something to remind me of Mom, such as a piece of jewelry? DH thinks I should keep it, and I sort of agree--but what use is the money when I die? I have no children to keep the tradition going.
If that weren't sad enough, today I received a letter from my brother (the one who was still speaking to me when Mom died; however, we parted ways over a year ago, when DH called him to check on him, as we hadn't heard from him in months--and my brother spent 40 minutes yelling at DH on the phone, saying awful things about me. I never called him back.). On the back of the envelope, in his wife's handwriting (he is paralyzed, and finds writing very difficult): "Sorry we took so long to get this to you; Mom wanted you to have it, etc." Inside, was a handwritten note from Mom, with 20 English pounds: "This is the last thing my mother gave to be before she died; give to Marge after I die." I started crying; there's something about seeing someone's handwriting after they died. I sometimes get out my friend Alice's letters to me; she died in 2002; she was my best friend. My Grandmother died in 1983, BTW. Mom kept the money all of these years.
Last year, I took June 5th off from work, but I will be at work tormorrow, so I don't know how I'll be.
I will wear the silver charm bracelet I started in Mom's honor. She was from Birmingham, and her parents were gold/silversmiths, with a shop attached to their house. Birmingham is famous for its silver, so I bought a sterling silver charm bracelet from there, which was hallmarked in my birth year. I attached various sterling silver charms representing Mom. She always talked about charm bracelets, but I don't think she ever had one; she never wore bracelets. I think she'd like this, though!
Also, I picked some red roses from my garden, and will put them on my desk at work. When she sold the house, I took a cutting from the rose bush that was always there. I did root it, but it died. The next year, though, the same one sprouted up many feet away! Lordy, how she hated that red rose bush! She always tried to kill it, but it wouldn't die! (She hated the color red.)
I'll also have my traditional bit of Cadbury chocolate bar tomorrow. Mom seldom ate sweets, but she loved Cadbury bars.
Do you think I should exchange the money for dollars, and put it toward something to remind me of Mom, such as a piece of jewelry? DH thinks I should keep it, and I sort of agree--but what use is the money when I die? I have no children to keep the tradition going.
I hope you're smiling some today. 
