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 iphone. 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