I Played Bingo With My Mother

My mother and I used to drive down to her ladies club every Sunday afternoon and play bingo. I would get one card and she would get a sheet of ten or so and we had tons of fun sitting there eating chips, drinking soda and playing bingo.

After my first son was born, I started going to the bingo games less and less. I wanted to, but it was just too hard to give up the family time that my husband and I had on the weekend. My mother would beg me to go with her once a month and I usually would turn her down.

When my mother got sick and could not leave the house, I knew that I could do something fun for her to make her feel better about being homebound. I called up some of her friends who I remembered from the bingo games and brought the bingo to her one Sunday afternoon when she thought that I was coming to visit by myself. I knew that she had a great time by the way she was smiling for the whole three hours we played bingo, ate and talked with her friends.

I miss her now that she is gone and really wish that I would have made more time for her in my adult years but I know that she never forgot about the time we played bingo at her house with her friends.