Things I've learned from mom - recently

Last Sunday Pastor Melinda read a humorous list of things we've learned form our mothers and since I just came from helping my mother do a few things I have come up with a list of recent things I have learned from my mom (in random order):

1. How to Rat hair - I attempt to style my mom's hair every Sunday before I bring her to church, please don't laugh at her, she can't help it if her daughter studied engineering and not cosmetology
2. How important Handicap Bathrooms really are.
3. How to pivot on one foot when you need to turn and can't bear weight on the other foot - I used this one a lot after my foot surgery.
4. How to drive an electric wheelchair
5. All the options that come with a walker - wheels, baskets, brakes, seats... etc
6. How to mount hand rails at the right height in the bathroom in my house
7. How many friends you make over your life - last year I addressed over 100 Christmas cards
8. How to get someone out of a wheelchair without hurting either one of us - OK, I'm still perfecting this one.
9. How to appreciate all the things I can do for myself
10. How to frame artwork - she has become an artist since moving out here.
11. How love can overcome even the grosses of tasks
12. How to weave through a crowd pushing a wheelchair without running anyone over.
13. How steep a ramp up the stairs in the garage really is
14. No matter how much you can't do, there is something you can always do if it is only to say Thank You.

Thanks mom