Mom Wanted: Update

I want to update you about how contact with the East Coast relatives is going. Hearing from Cousin Lisa today, she sent me an e-mail that said: “We are all fine. Just gave us a good shake. Lol!”

I’m glad she responded….But, I still haven’t heard from my Mom yet. I gave up trying to call and finally sent her an e-mail but I doubt that she has even turned on her computer in the last 24 hours….She’s probably outside pulling weeds out of her massive garden and just hasn’t got around to it yet.

As you can tell, getting my mother to communicate with me has been an ongoing problem. She has so many children and grandchildren, brothers and sisters that live around her that her one child that lives on the other side of the United States just doesn’t get connected very often.

O.k., I definitely get a Birthday and Christmas card from her every year. And that use to be as much contact that a person of my generation could hope for. But with the invention of the computer and face book…the lack of contact is beginning to feel like the silent treatment. I’m sure that’s not what is happening here. While I live near my computer she rarely turns her’s on. She enjoys sights and smells of the earth that I rarely notice anymore. I’m sure she’ll call.

Hopefully Cousin Lisa will let her know I’m worried….and within a month or so she’ll call and wonder what I am fretting about!

Mom Wanted

I’m just about out of my head with worry…My Mom lives in Virginia, deep in the country, by herself, and the phone just keeps saying NET WORK BUSY.

You know they just had an earthquake there. I don’t know what that means. I lived in Virginia for the first twenty years of my life and never experienced an earthquake. I moved to California and got used to the ground shaking but I can’t remember my East Coast family ever telling me about a fault line being active on the East Coast.

I do remember my brother telling me that the earthquakes I was experiencing in California were because California was such a sinful place.

After hearing this couple of times, I told my brother that actually what was going to happen was that THE BIG Quake was coming to happen. California, however, would break off the United States and float away, a safe, beautiful island and the rest of the United States would tip over.

Well, with the horrible laws being created in Washington DC., I hope, No, I pray I wasn’t right! But this blog isn’t about my political views. So I won’t say any more about that.

What I will do is post a Mom Wanted sign…If anyone has seen this woman tell her to call Gloria.

More pictures of Mom and the farm are available here: http://cmewander.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-grandmas-garden-is-bigger-than-your.html

My East Coast Gardening with Mom

This blog is about my East Coast/West Coast Connection. I have been having such a wonderful time glorying in where I am at and what I am doing on the West coast, but I haven’t communicated about my East Coast connection.

My daughter, Christy, a multimedia editor for Clorox, writes a blog. She recently visited my mom’s farm on the East Coast and captured a verbal snapshot of a treasured memory I carry.

That of: Endless hot humid days spent listening to my mother’s slightly off key humming as she tends her garden, drinking cool water from a green tinted mason jar and pulling weeds beside her. Check out her write up at: http://cmewander.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-grandmas-garden-is-bigger-than-your.html If you click on the picture of the house at the end of a green expanse of grass you will be treated to pictures of the farm and my mom making fig jam.

Also, may I let you know that tomorrow is National Hollerin' Day. So, y’all take care now, ya hear?!