Mom Said How Lucky She Is

On an outing several months ago were heading home after sharing lunch at a Spanish restaurant in the area when we passed one of mother’s friends home and I mentioned that she should call her and visit with her.  Mom said, they should go out to lunch and I said, “Yes, I will drive you there and pick you both up.”  At this my mother said, “I never thought life would be like this.”  I was thinking she was referring to the incapacity of old age, the dependency of a woman getting older and needing others to do her driving, etceteras.  I asked her, “What do you mean” and she replied, “I’m so lucky, you do so much for me.  All your friends are so nice to me.”  I fondly reminisce now, no mom, I couldn’t have been luckier to have you with me for so many years.  I miss you so much.