spend more time with my parents

Mummy has been offered an apt. in my building, almost across the hall from me. Thank you God, I mean that from the bottom of my heart. With the loss of my Dad, mum and I are much closer and I realize how important it is for me to call her, just for no reason, and yap. She even thanks me for calling her, imagine!

This Sunday is Mother’s Day, I will be spending it with my dear mother. Hopefully I can think of something to make the day special that isn’t expensive or fattening. LOL

I am calling mum at least once a day, sometimes more like two or three times. She is only 45 kms away, but it’s long distance. Thank goodness I have a package that gives me 1500 minutes of long distance, any time of day, within Canada. It makes it easy to pick up the phone and call her, even if something silly is on the TV.

I haven’t looked at this ‘thing’ in a while. I realized that when I wrote the last entry, it was the summertime, my dad was alive and we were planning on going to the cabin. Right after that, my dear mother got ill, had her quadruple heart bypass, then I had surgery, then my father passed away.

Now, I have only my mother, who I love dearly. I miss my dad something awful, I was always his little princess, even at 41 years old. He wished me a happy birthday on the day before he died, which was my birthday. I am hoping that soon, very soon, my mother’s name will get to the top of the list for housing and she can move into the same apartment building that I am in. I am praying for this and hope that it’s God’s will, it would make it so much easier to spend more time with her if she lived down the hall.

I love my parents! They are old and have habits that make me roll my eyes, but they are fun to be with. I love it when they start talking about life, ‘before Julie’. Like .. what .. you guys had a LIFE before ME?!? How can that be, I am the centre of your world, aren’t I?? LOL I am the OC, the only child, can you tell?

Anyway, there is so much to learn from them, I am hoping to get to the cabin this week with my dad, while mum babysits the cat. Fingers crossed that this goes off without a hitch.