My mom is 250 miles away, so I won't be cooking for her. I will call her and chat for a while. Fifteen minutes later, she won't remember that I called. If I travelled down there to cook (she loves my cooking), the next day she won't remember what I cooked, although if my sister reminds her, she would probably remember that I was there.
Besides, I will be right on the edge of when I'm allowed to travel by air since my eye surgery.
Her birthday and mine are in June, and I'll go down in early June and cook something for the three of us. Honestly, my sister will have to tell her 20+ times that tomorrow is Mother's Day, and another 20 times that today is Mother's Day. Don't be sad, she is happy and lives a VERY comfortable life. She just has serious short-term memory problems.
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