maybe i overreacted

I sent an email to my mom not long after I posted my rambling rant below.  My mom and I have always had a really good relationship.  When I was in college, she called me almost every Monday night for 4 years.  After college I lived and worked with her for some time, and even when I moved out of her apartment for my own, we spent lots of time together (dinner, movies, shopping, etc).

When I moved in with Nick, we had dinner with my folks almost weekly.  When my mom moved to Marquette, Nick and I had dinner or lunch with my dad as often as we could until he started working more than sleeping/eating and spending every other waking moment driving to Marquette or being in Marquette.

I remember my mom saying once that she called me regularly when I was in college because she knew I needed it.  And that’s the reason why she still calls my sister regularly.  But for me, she figures, no news is good news; and great news gets a phone call.

Well, I am going to make an attempt to call more, and not because of my sister’s guilt (my mom says she’s our family’s conscience), but because of my uncle Frank’s intense sadness over his mother’s death.  As we were leaving the funeral home on Friday, I gave my uncle a big hug and asked how he was doing.  He said “Go buy your mom some flowers.  I used to always think, ‘I’m gonna buy my mom a huge boquet of flowers and bring it to her today’ but I never did.”  He was telling me not to take my mom for granted.  I need to realize that my mom and dad won’t be around forever.  This is the only time I have them, I really should make the most of it.