We were talking about Mother's Day and thinking about the things we really wish we'd inherited from them. For me, it would have to be my mum's singing voice - I can't hold a note, yet she can make a song out of the week's shopping list and sound like she should be on stage. What do you wish you'd inherited from your mum?
Her fantastic needlework skills - embroidery, tapestry, counted thread work, dressmaking. She was so gifted.
One more thing was her skill at small talk, she could chat to anyone. I’m ok once I get to know people, Mum could just chat to anyone ( though I would never have described her as extrovert, just good at chatting).
I have inherited my mothers figure despite leading very different lives and having a very different diet, I have morphed into her, Buddah belly etc. . She was a lovely lady though x
Her looks- at 90 she is still an absolute beauty. My dad was a very handsome man, too. Unfortunately I take after him, and what is handsome in a man isn’t so attractive in a woman. My three daughters are absolutely lovely too. When I’m with them and my mother I am definitely the ugly duckling. Ahh well, at least I didn’t inherit her cooking “skills”......
My mother was a Post Mistress and run a small grocery business.She was so good at mental arithmetic, if a delivery man was toting up a bill, mam could arrive at the correct sum before him - and that was reading it upside down so to speak. She had lovely long fingers and played the piano. She didn't knit but could crochet beautifully. Sadly I have inherited none of these traits though I wish I had. It is 34 years since she died and I miss her so much.
Her knitting skills - I can knit but nothing like as well as mum who mastered some really complicated patterns Maybe her longevity she died aged 93, only a 'maybe' there because her last year wasn't much fun at all, she had definitely 'had enough' when she passed away