My mom loved being outside gardening and sitting out on the front steps with some hot tea planning on what flowers to put where. I loved helping her plant and developed the love of plants and nature because of her.
Mom was always ready to have fun playing cards, dice and board games, especially when more family was over. Those were some great times with all of us together.
Mom was also never above being goofy to have fun. She would make up bed time stories, we would have hand puppets sing along to songs on the radio, we would have "favorite pebble" contests where we would pick out the ones we liked the best that we collected from the yard, so many small things, big things and silly things that made life better and filled with memories to carry with me forever.