Guess She's Going To Florida

[judy]

That is probably true Janet! You know, you have to take the bad with the good.

I really understand. My mother was the same - selfish! She was very sick, and died young. She smoked, and cheated on her diet. She had heart disease, rheumatic fever and emphysema. That woman smoked with an oxygen tank next to her bed!

Looking back now though, I am glad that she did enjoy and experience the life she had. She was tough and very selfish, but that's who she was. She was never going to change. I cannot imagine her laying in bed and tending to her health, living like an invalid. She would have been so unhappy. She probably wouldn't have lived more than a few years longer anyway.

She did not really focus on how she made my father crazy with worry, or that she was not a very good mother, but he went on and had a good second marriage, and I grew up to be happy anyway.

I'm not going to tell you not to worry, or to be frustrated with her and your brother, but there is nothing you can do about it anyway.