She’s my mother. I don’t call her Maxine when we’re together, just mom. But I probably would feel comfortable using her name. I think when the relationship between parent and child cross over to something more resembling friendship perhaps Given names of parents could be used. So Maxine is 89 but really is one of those Young at Hearts. Her one big frustration is limited mobility, saying If it wasn’t for my back and knees I’d be roaring around!
That, and then there is the onset of dementia that has her repeating comments and questions frequently. And if there is a little too much going on around her she can’t quite follow. But most times she can engage in great serious conversation and some seriously funny ones too.
I’ve come to know from spending so much time with her and having lengthy discussions about everything from alien/human hybrids to fashion that she was secretly her family’s black sheep. The non conformist at heart.
Perhaps there are memoirs to be written, stories to be told! I’ve been spending a lot of time with my mom too who has reached her 80s. She’s got it all together, but there are doctors visits, double hip replacements, and plans to move… Challenging times.
Yes, never fully grasping in our 30’s what that entails, what it draws from us. What it opens in us~
Yes, very true. Sometimes we must arrive at the experience to really know.