My mother was sitting outside with us enjoying the evening. We started to have a conversation that on her end degenerated into something that made no sense at all.  She jumbled her thoughts and words into a topic that was far from where we started.

After a particularly long ramble on her end mom stopped talking, looked and at me and fell silent. I looked at her and said, “Mom, I love you.” Mom responded back with a sweet smile, “I love you too, whatever your name is!” I laughed ……and was grateful for the love!