Final Touch...for my Mom

It would be a wonderful thing to use the term "final touch" as the feeling one would have upon entering heaven....as the final touch, from Jesus to me, or any of us. But I have to tell you it has everything to do with my Mother, Tillie, who I lost November 2007, and with grace of God I've beena able to accept her death for two reasons...God answered her prayers....to not go into the dark night (due to Alzheimers)...and to not be a burden on anyone in her family. She made me promise her that none of "her girls"(her four daughters')would take on the responsibility of caring for her if she lived long enough for Alzheimers to completely capture her (because she had seen it first hand with my sister Theresa's mother-in-law). Her prayer to God was to take her before she went into the dark night....that was the thing that scared her most. She said to me in one of our coffee clatches before I left on a Sunday morn....."I will live as long as I possibly can"....and she did. In her eulogy I stated that it was more important for us to realize God's answer to her prayer, before He answered OUR prayer to keep her with us.

Throughout my lifetime, I have always appreciated my Mother's need to have really nice domestics throughout the bedrooms, and the bathroom as well. I have realized this is one of the few luxuries she experienced, when life just got a little easier....where she could splurge. And the fact she did it with comforters, sheets, curtains, bath gear and doilies...we can't forget the doilies...ever present of her memories of her Mom. I remember Grandmom's doilies, and I loved them. I use doilies to this day....wherever deemed appropriate. Regardless, it is the memory of my grandmother I cherrish.

So....I was visiting my home state of PA recently, and when I pulled a towel from the hall closet, I instinctivly smelled it. I recalled my mothers insistance of good smelling softner. If it didn't produce allergic reations, it was a winner.

So with this recent visit to PA, you'd think I'd grab the Swiss Farms Tea Cooler, or the Habbersett's Scrapple to return home with me....given my past habits,
but this time I sought for the laundry softner Final Touch. I didn't have the time to search the 'right' store for the product before I left PA, but I thought, I will search the stores in my area, and perhaps I will find it. Well I did, and I can now say I have done two loads of laundry with the final touch added to the rinse cycle.

I will remember my Mother in many ways, but can I say how pleased I am to remember her with smell.