Phone calls home to your elderly parents

Here we have Mother’s Day coming fast and furious.
And just a month behind is Father’s Day. The time of
phone calls. Be it the obligation kind or the grateful kind.

When your parents are younger and you are in your 30’s
40’s or even 50’s. it usually is a fun time to catch up. And
many subjects to talk about.

But when your parents hit 70 plus, how do you do? Yes,
You have the, “how are you”? “What have you been doing lately”,
Answering the questions of how is your job going, and what are the
kids up to these days? You talk about the weather. And then what?

If you have a sibling living in your town, then you might talk about
how they are doing. Even if you think that sibling is going to be
going thru the same conversation. And then there is the health report.

Then there is the “I love you, and take care of yourself Mom/Dad, and
the conversation ends. I know there are those out there, who would give
their eye teeth to be able to have one more conversation. But what more
than I love you…would you say?

Living nearer to the parents helps, you are updated most of the time,
and you take them out to dinner, and things seem to go smoother.
But calling, sometimes, no matter how much you love them, it is strained
with nothing to say after the first few lines.


HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all the women who are mothers,
grandmothers, and step mothers...