Well, if there is nothing else....

Most of my phone calls with mom are "updates" which I truly do not mind at all. She gives me an update of what she is doing for the week, what activities she has planned for her in-home daycare, what the family members are up to, and maybe even what was on Oprah that week. I like the reports, as they are often filled with some funny story about what happened with one of her kids, or how she won three out of the five prizes at the latest bingo game (more on my mother's amazing luck in future posts!). To finish up her stories she usually pauses to think if there is not anything else she was meaning to tell me. Then she very casually says, "Well, there is nothing else earth shattering I can think of..."

It is funny, because I am so accustomed to hearing her say this that I have not realized until recently that she is perhaps the only person I hear use this phrase. At least the only person that uses it so casually.

Great way to end a conversation, don't you think?

*Picture Source http://www.whitestones.org/earth/earth.htm