The following is a conversation with my mother from 2016. She was in the earlier stages of dementia. Sadly it would take over her mind in just the next few years.

I had given my mother an old I phone. She struggled with it but did manage text messages and loved getting pictures. It is the one thing she’d figured out.

She has been gone nearly 5 years now and finding these notes where I wrote down some of the more humorous conversations bring joy to my heart.

Conversation with my Mother…

Me: “Did you get the picture I sent you?”

Mother: “You mean the SCARECROW one?”

Me: “Scarecrow? I just texted you a picture…”

Mother: “Oh yeah you didn’t look like yourself.”

Me: {Laughing} “Scarecrow? You think look like a scarecrow? Don’t think I’ve ever been told that before.”

Mother: “Well you you just look strange, your mouth is weird.”

Me: “Well yeah, it’s been a long day.”

The conversation went on from here to the a discussion where she agreed to visit me in the summer.

Me: “OK, I’ll look for flights.”

Mother: “Do they still have First-class?”

(you see there is a hint there…”

Me: “You mean the airlines? Yeah, I’m sure they still have first class. We’ll have to see what the cost is…”

Mother: “Oh… I didn’t know if they still did that.”

{She came June 25…First Class}

The photo is of a comic strip she sent me. In the margin she wrote, “Somebody else knows your mother.”

Comic credit: Shoe ~ By: Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly