My mother-in-law was smart
and kind and wise. She worked 35 hours a week at Sears, just under getting
benefits, and was retired just at the best time for them.
She loved people and loved her family and lived with a smart eye and a kind heart .
When she met me the first time and got how hit her son was, she took me into the breezeway and shut the door .
She said she knew I'd had other boyfriends and what was different about this . I told her Everything. So she believed me.
We were always at their house, for dinner, for tv night, and afterwards she'd refuse my help with dishes , while she and Papa picked up and put away.
We'd talk about all kinds of things, and even though there was so much difference , she embraced who my 26 year old self was without a pause.
She made it all look easy, which I've only now come to realize, these forty years later.
So now, before bed, when her beautiful son is doing the dishes and I'm drying and putting away , and he takes the dish towel and begins carefully wiping everything down around the sink, the frig, it's all I can do but to think of her, settling things in her beloved kitchen, making all things right.
There is so much that others make look easy, when in fact they are as complex as the day is long.
She loved people and loved her family and lived with a smart eye and a kind heart .
When she met me the first time and got how hit her son was, she took me into the breezeway and shut the door .
She said she knew I'd had other boyfriends and what was different about this . I told her Everything. So she believed me.
We were always at their house, for dinner, for tv night, and afterwards she'd refuse my help with dishes , while she and Papa picked up and put away.
We'd talk about all kinds of things, and even though there was so much difference , she embraced who my 26 year old self was without a pause.
She made it all look easy, which I've only now come to realize, these forty years later.
So now, before bed, when her beautiful son is doing the dishes and I'm drying and putting away , and he takes the dish towel and begins carefully wiping everything down around the sink, the frig, it's all I can do but to think of her, settling things in her beloved kitchen, making all things right.
There is so much that others make look easy, when in fact they are as complex as the day is long.
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