The Price is Right

We found that mom tried her hardest to keep us in line even up until the last hours of her life. It was about 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7th, and we were waiting for Dave and Mariah to get to the hospital so that they could tell her good-bye. As we waited in mom's hospital room, we had random conversations about random things.

One of our conversations centered around Jim's description of some relatives of his that had recently won the showcase on the game show, Wheel of Fortune. He was telling us all about the exciting news and as he did; we could see mom shaking her head back and forth. I think I could even see a little disgusted eye rolling in the mix. Jim kept talking and mom kept shaking! Finally, she opened her eyes just a bit and tried to say something. We couldn't tell what she was attempting to say so she motioned for us to get the writing pad again! She hadn't written anything in two days because it had become very difficult to do; but once again, we figured there must be something very important that we needed to know.

We steadied the writing pad and her hand as she once again, wrote. As soon as she was done, she gave an exasperated gasp and let the pen go. We looked carefully at what had been written and lo and behold we saw these words: "The Price is Right!"

Thanks mom, we didn't want to be watching the wrong show and now we know that you didn't want us to either!!!