There are really so many things to enjoy about him...the 2-tooth smiles, the giggles, the snuggles, and the chunky, chunky you-can-hide-quarters-in-those-rolls goodness. I know if Mom was still Mom she'd be eating it all up with a spoon. But, Mom hasn't been Mom for a long time.
And now that I'm a Mom, I feel like it's stirred up some more memories of Ma. I'll be going about my day - feeding Drake or changing his diaper, and a memory will hit me over the head. The other day I was in the car with Drake - on our way to daycare, and we were listening to an 80s station on the radio. I was waxing nostalgic to a Cyndi Lauper tune, and I remembered being in the car with Mom and listening to the "oldies" station. Mom would be in the front seat with Dad and a tune would come on the radio and she would turn around and offer my sisters and I a quarter if we could name the artist.
And then Amy, Heather and I would shout out the 3 "oldies" singers that we knew; I don't think we ever got a song right. But, it was always fun to try. Mom always seemed to find ways to make everything more fun.
And that's the kind of Mom that I want to be. The Mom that makes everything more fun.
I want to be the Mom that offers Drake a quarter for naming the singer of "She Bop."
I might even double it for a Prince tune.
