Saturday, September 28, 2024
I’ve known that this day was coming for a little while now and I started gathering memories. So……..I remember all the summers we swam in Lake Simcoe and the ginormous ice cream cones we’d get in Jackson’s Point. I remember watching her and my Aunt Marie laughing so hard at a joke or a story only sisters understood. I remember her fabulous slow baked sweet and sour spareribs, her baked macaroni & cheese and her yummy peanut butter cookies. That mac’n cheese is now enjoyed by my grandchildren. I remember all our neighbourhood friends growing up calling her “Mrs D”. I have fond memories of being at the Sutton Fair with her and my dad and knowing the draft horses were coming into the show ring because the ground shook. Then there was the time as teenagers that we didn’t realize she hadn’t gotten on the very crowded subway car until we saw her waving at us from the platform as we pulled away. I remember afternoons at my grandma’s apartment and my mom and my grandma teaching me how to sew or make jam. I remember her and my oldest son watching the squirrels in her backyard from her kitchen window when he was about a year old. We really enjoyed going to the library book sale together. She loved historical romance novels and we would laugh at the titles like “The Wicked Duke Takes a Wife”! She had her share of ups and downs in her life as we all do but she persevered as best she could. She wasn’t one for mushy words so over the years when I was going home I would say “Take it easy mom” and she would say “l’ll take it anyway I can get it!” It turned out these were our last words to each other. I will miss her.
I put this message on Facebook as well and the outpouring of kind words and condolence messages was overwhelming. All the family truly appreciates it.
