Laowai

Best advice my mom gave me: First of all, I like that my mom isn’t the kind of mom that is always preaching advice to me. I learned from just being close my mom. When I was learning to drive and as I was trying to pull out into traffic she would say You’re turn will come. I always think of being next to her in the car that feeling of being monitored she was very patient and supportive. I think it’s good advice for general life too – be good, be patient. You’re turn will come.

Favorite childhood memories: Making egg shell igloos. Eating around a camp stove. Always having her there at sporting events. Gazing up through the Christmas tree. Being in the garden and watching Whiskers streak across the yard. Seeing her come through the door at my Grandma and Grandpa’s house after sailing night. Lying in my bed after waking from a nap listening to woodpeckers and finding shapes of things in the branches outside my window.

Favorite thing to do with my mom: Walk in a garden – chat and vent and think of the names of plants. Watch her hold my babies and giggle with them.