She found wonder in the simplest of things always stopping to smell the roses. Fun should have been her middle name. Fun to her was sharing time with family and friends. Rarely it seemed if my parents do anything alone except for the occasional weekend getaway. Even then my Mom would strike up a quick friendship with complete strangers.
Home is where our life centered.
She made sure of it. It seems that each one of her kids friends lived at our house at one time or another, you know who you are. This explains why some of you here today have expressed that you feels as though you ve lost your second mother. It seemed Mom loved everyone. We often joke that we are thankful that she was not running the family business, as we would probably go broke.