以我的妈妈写一篇英语作文（19篇）

My mother is a hostess. She has a long hair and she is of medium height. I think she is beautiful. My mother loves dogs because she thinks theyre very cute.

My mother is a laborious woman. She works ten hours a day.

My mother is with great concern me. I love my mother!

我妈妈是女主人。她有一头长发，她中等身高。我认为她是美丽的。我妈妈喜欢狗，因为她认为它们很可爱。

我的母亲是一个勤劳的女人。她每天工作十个小时。

我的母亲非常关心我。我爱我的母亲!

My mother is 35 years old. But I still can see how beautiful she is when she is young. She is not too tall but very thin. Her eyes are black. Her hair is blackand there is several white hair.

我的妈妈今年35岁了。但我仍然可以看出她年轻的时候是多么的漂亮。她个子不太高，但是很瘦。她的眼睛是黑色的。她的头发是黑色的，不过已经有一些白头发了。

She takes me to school every day. In the evening she help me with my homework. If I’m hungry she will cook my favourite meals. She’s always trying to encourage me to try something new. I think my mother is the best person in this world. She is always be there for me when I need her. I love her so much. She is my hero.

每天，她都送我上学。到了晚上，她辅导我写作业。如果我饿了，她就做我最喜欢的菜给我吃。她总是鼓励我去尝试新的东西。我认为我的妈妈是世界上最好的人。当我需要她的时候她总会在我的身边。我非常爱她。她是我的英雄。

I have a very lovely and beautiful mother.

Every time I got 100 marks, my mothers face was as beautiful as the peach blossom she opened in March. Also, whenever I exam more than 80 points when mom will send a lot of temper, fly into a rage, really terrible.

My mother likes playing table tennis, she also likes rice noodles, and mum likes surfing the Internet most, but its her job!

I wish mom health, health, happiness, and more beautiful!

My mother forty years ago, the years of the wind and frost in her face carved a deep road wrinkles. Mother is a national cadre. Brother and sister six, grandfather is not wealthy, she did not go to high school, seventeen years old in the county a factory in the workers. Mother work very well, many times was rated as a model worker.

While working, while learning, she also passed the adult self-examination. Later, my mother was honored to be recruited as an official cadre. Mother from small body weakness, has been sick, life is very hard. At that time, my father in the township when the leadership, work very busy, poor traffic conditions, away from home and far. My mother to take care of her sister to primary school, but also to help grandparents and grandfather care for some housework, their work and can not escape the body.

Mom said to me: "work and life, although a little tired, but the days of the very full." In recent years, my mother finally got rid of the disease plagued, but she lived is not easy. Dads work transferred to the outside county, my sister and I went to school in Taiyuan, the old age of the elderly are big. She returned home to visit the elderly, running Taiyuan to take care of me and my sister, usually in the stone but also cooking fathers life.

I had to leave for the whole family. When I saw my mother running around, hey! My mother is so hard ah! Last year, winter vacation, my mother did not come to me, I really do not know what happened? Later, my father told me, my mother made a Small surgery. My father and I hurried back to the stone, all the way my heart is about to jump out.

When I took the certificate to the mothers bed before the eyes full of tears suddenly burst out, I do not know what to say with my mother! Mom looked at me, tears, put me tightly in my arms , With her hard-working hands stroking me. My mother is kind and kind. I love my mom!

mother s love is the greatest in the world. one evening, it was raining hard and it was very dark outside. suddenly i got a bad headache. my mother felt my head and found that i had a high fever. she was so worried that shi took me on the back to thenearby hospital at once.

at that time, it was about midnight and it was raining even harder. i looked down at my mother andfound that she was walking hard in the heavy rain. i couldn t keep back my tears. when she was too tired to walk on, she letme down. but when she found i could hardly stand, she took me on the back again and went on walking. when we got to the hospital, she was out of breath. the doctor looked me over carefully and let me take some hot water and some medicine.

on the way home, i felt a little better. so i told my mother that could walk slowly by myself. but mother took me in the back without a word. when we got home, mother fell to the floor. she was too tired! the next day i felt much better, but mother got ill.

what a great mother! how great mother s love is !

Like a stream flowing in my heart is my mother; Like the firefly is my mom showed me the way; Let me happily asleep in his own heart valve or my mother. Every child has mom, mom diligent and kind; Some mother tender and beautiful; My mother (she is) intelligent thrift; My mother a considerate and generous, beautiful caring; I care about I love my mother. This is my mother.

"There is only a mother good" it is not false, is my mother gave me life, raise me, gave me the greatest selfless love, I know that every mother love their children, only just in a different way of love, take my mother, for instance, she in my learning requirement is very strict and meticulous, and is kind, love is in my life better.

Recently happened thing, makes me very unforgettable, that morning, I got up early than usual, because the mother do surgery, the body is not restored by a cold, my father was not at home, I want to cook I wear good clothes, suddenly smelled the fragrance of milk, mother had been prepared breakfast for me, and I saw my mother up thin sweat on his forehead, his mouth kept cough, she was holding a bowl of hot milk, said in a hoarse voice, "bergkamp hot to drink." It is warm in my heart, my eyes moist, also feel mother gaunt many overnight.

Think of mom often for my carelessness on the study at ordinary times, and scold me, punish me for I done something wrong, now I understand that this is all for my good mother, but I dont understand this, dont understand mothers hard, also often talk back to my mother, let mother angry, think really should not!

I want to say to my mother: "mom, you were laborious! Thank you for your love.

像溪水一般流淌在我心间的是我的妈妈;像萤火虫一样给我引路的是我的妈妈;让我幸福地熟睡在自己的心瓣里的还是我的妈妈。每个孩子都有妈妈，有的妈妈勤劳善良;有的妈妈温柔美丽;我的妈妈聪慧节俭;我的妈妈贤慧大方，漂亮善良体贴;我的妈妈关心我疼爱我。这就是我的妈妈。

“世上只有妈妈好”这一点也不假，是妈妈给了我生命，抚育了我成长，给了我人世间最无私的爱，我知道每个妈妈都爱自己的孩子，只只是爱的方式不同，就拿我妈妈来说吧，她在我学习上要求是非常严厉、一丝不苟的，而且在我生活上是无微不至、疼爱有佳的。

前不久发生的一件事，使我非常难忘，那天早上，我比平常起早了些，那是因为妈妈生病做手术，身体还没恢复有加感冒，爸爸又不在家，我想自己做饭我穿好衣服，忽然闻到了牛奶的香味，原来妈妈已经为我做好了早餐，只见妈妈额头上冒出了细细的汗珠，嘴里不停的咳嗽着，她捧着一碗热乎乎的牛奶，用嘶哑的声音说：“博博趁热喝了吧。”这是我心里热乎乎的，眼睛也湿润了，觉得妈妈一夜间憔悴了许多。

想起妈妈平时经常为了我学习上的粗心，而责骂我，为我做错了事而惩罚我，今天我才明白妈妈这都是为了我好，而我却不懂这一点，不明白妈妈的苦心，还经常跟妈妈顶嘴，让妈妈生气，想想真是不应该呀!

我想对妈妈说：“妈妈，您辛苦了!感谢你对我的爱”

My mother often says her family is the most precious things to her daughter.

Mother in around me all the day, both have to work and to do household chores, also help me do the homework, tired mother do sweet and delicious meals for me every day, can cover the quilt for me in the evening everyday, make time for me to wash clothes, dressed me clean and beautiful.

Ah, mother do so many things for me, I should return for mom, but should return how mom? I think, think of now study hard, to help my mother do housework, grew up I was ready to take mom she wanted to go, let mother roam the world, to go on vacation to Hawaii, to go to see the pyramids of Egypt, to Europe to see the Eiffel Tower... I also want to give mom bought glittering jewelry, the mother dress nicely. I also want to buy a big house for mother, let mother comfortably good every day.

Do I have to let mother the happiest mother in the world.

我的妈妈常说她家最宝贵的东西就是她的女儿。

妈妈整天都在围着我转，既要工作又要做家务，还要辅导我做作业，疲倦的妈妈天天为我做香甜可口的饭菜、天天晚上都会为我盖被子，挤出时间为我洗衣服，把我打扮得干干净净，漂漂亮亮。

哎，妈妈为我做了这么多事儿，我应该回报妈妈，可是应该怎么回报妈妈呢?我冥思苦想，想到现在认真读书，帮妈妈做家务事，长大了我准备把妈妈带到她想去的地方，让妈妈遨游整个世界，到夏威夷去度假，到埃及去看金字塔，到欧洲去看艾菲尔铁塔……我还要给妈妈买金光闪闪的首饰，把妈妈打扮的漂漂亮亮。我还要给妈妈买一栋大房子，让妈妈舒舒服服地过好每一天。

我一定要让妈妈成为世界上最幸福的妈妈。

描写妈妈的英语作文：我的妈妈

My mother

My mother’s name is nancy. She has long hair, two big eyes My mother likes sports and shopping. Her favourite sports are football and yoga. And her favourite food is ice cream. She also likes dogs and cats.

My mother is a high school techer, she works very hard and does very well in the school.

My mother also concerns my study. She always helps me study and play the piano. She is very glad when I make progress.

My mother loves me very much. And I love my mother too!

描写妈妈的英语作文：我的妈妈

My mother

My mother is very kind and beautiful although she is not tall.She is 42 years old this year.She is a nurse,so she is always very busy day and night.But she loves her job,and she often takes care of her patients.Of course,she also likes singing,dancing,cooking and shopping,but she almost no time to do them.

Oh,I love my mother.

描写妈妈的英语作文：我的妈妈

I have a great mother. She cares much about me in my life and study.

In the morning, she gets up early to make breakfast for me. When I was little, she prepared my schoolbag. But now, she tells me to do it by myself. Because she thinks I have been old enough to do it. Besides, she always checks my homework. When I finish my homework, she checks it and points out the mistakes. She is very careful and helps me a lot.

I love my mother.

我有一个性格温柔的妈妈。她有一双水汪汪的眼睛，不太高的鼻子，一张小小的嘴巴，一双浓浓的眉毛，瀑布般的黑发。

I have a gentle mother. She has a pair of watery eyes, a nose that is not too high, a small mouth, a pair of thick eyebrows, and waterfall like black hair.

有一次，妈妈得了一种叫胆结石的病。腰常常会痛，就到医院检查，检查之后，医生说肚子里的一样东西正有渐渐地扩大，不知道是什么东西，所以需要住院观察。医生把妈妈安排在特殊的病房里，护士轮流看护着，妈妈特别感动。到吃中午饭的时间了，医院饭还没煮好，我怕妈妈饿着，就对妈妈说：“我去给你买一盒盒饭吧。”说完，我急急忙忙地跑了出去，这时，正好下着狂风暴雨，我在大雨中狂奔，生怕盒饭卖完了。于是，我更加卖力了，越跑越快，终于跑到了卖盒饭的地方，只剩下最后一盒，要是晚一分钟就被别人买走了。回到医院，我将盒饭递给妈妈，妈妈直夸我是个好孩子，接着就狼吞虎咽起来。

Once, mother got a disease called gallstone. The waist often hurts and goes to the hospital for examination. After checking, the doctor says that something in the belly is gradually expanding and doesnt know what it is, so it needs to be hospitalized for observation. The doctor arranged the mother in the special ward, the nurse took turns to look after, mother was particularly touched. It was time for lunch, and the hospital wasnt cooked yet. I was afraid my mother was hungry and said to my mother, "Ill buy you a box lunch."." With that, I hurried out, when it was raining hard, and I was running in the heavy rain, for fear that the lunch box had been sold out. So, I worked harder, and ran faster and faster, and finally ran to the place where the box was sold. Only the last box was left. If one minute later, someone else would buy it. Back at the hospital, I handed the lunch box to my mother, who praised me as a good child and then gobbled it up.

我给予妈妈的爱，不用妈妈回报。爱是有力量的，也是人世界最伟大、最无私的。我想大声地呼喊：“妈妈，我爱您!”

I give my mother love without mothers return. Love is powerful, and it is the greatest and most selfless person in the world. I want to shout loudly: "mother, I love you."!"

When we are very small, most of us have heard the song about the praise of the mother, we have been told that mother is the best people in the world. Indeed, our mothers are the persons who give birth to us, who will never abandon us whatever happens upon us. Sometimes we will argue with our mothers, because we think she doesn’t understand us, but after a little while, we always regret for the argument. Actually, she knows her babies, she just cares too much that she doesn’t expect that it will hurt her babies. As kids, we should understand our mothers, too, it is our duty to take care of her, when we are young, mothers take care our us, when they are old, it is our turn to take care of her. It is love that makes the world beautiful, let’s show our love to mothers.

当我们很小的时候，大部分人都听过一首赞赏妈妈的歌，歌中传达的是妈妈是世界上最好的人。确实，我们的妈妈是生我们的人，一个无论我们发生什么事，永远都不会抛弃我们的人。有时候我们会和妈妈争吵，因为我们觉得她不理解我们，但是过后我们总是后悔。实际上，她了解她的宝贝，只是没发现过度的关系会带来伤害。作为孩子，我们也应该理解妈妈，我们有责任照顾她，当我们小的时候，妈妈照顾我们，当她们老了，轮到我们照顾她。爱让世界更美好，让我们对妈妈表达爱吧。

Said the mother, everyone will write like this: "my mother is beautiful and gentle." Like the same composition, the reader can also upset it at? Who can write such a composition, not mother back to the hospital, in rainy day is mother wash clothes for himself in the middle of the night.

My mother is different, how different to feel my mother! My mother grows in general, short hair, and half is dyed color, half is golden, half is black, appear very different. My mom and dad divorced, I used to live with my mother, mother wont let me play computer, ready to hit people. Now, my mother and I lived in one place, the mother is surprisingly gentle to me, every time go to mother there, mom let me play computer, no longer limit my freedom. Mother is a women dont go out for a long time, only to work, or have something to go out, when eating it yourself, or make a take-away. Clothes are all buy on the net, day and night to get to the Internet. Mother does not like to laugh, every time she looked at me, I will be afraid, my mother is the pursuit of fashion, she online shopping is very beautiful, but to buy me clothes is very ugly. This is my mother, a different mother; A like to play my mother; A fiery mother; A tender mother; A mum dont like to laugh; A love my mother!

说道妈妈，每个人都会这样写：“我的妈妈漂亮而且温柔。”像这样千篇一律的作文，读者看着也会心烦吧?这样的作文谁都会写，不是妈妈在雨天背自己去医院，就是妈妈半夜帮自己洗衣服。

我的妈妈与众不同，来感受一下我的妈妈怎么与众不同吧!我的妈妈长得一般，短短的头发，还有半边是染过色的，一半是金色，一半是黑色，显得很与众不同。我的爸爸妈妈离婚了，我以前和妈妈住的时候，妈妈不让我玩电脑，动不动就打人。现在，我和妈妈不在一个地方住了，妈妈对我出奇的温柔，每次去妈妈那里，妈妈都让我玩电脑，不再限制我的自由了。妈妈是个宅女，只有上班，或者有事才会出去，吃饭时自己做，或者定个外卖。衣服全部在网上买，一天到晚地上网。妈妈不喜欢笑，每次她盯着我，我都会害怕，我的妈妈很追求时尚，她网购的东西很漂亮，但是，给我买的衣服却很难看。这就是我的妈妈，一个与众不同的妈妈;一个喜欢打我的妈妈;一个暴躁的妈妈;一个温柔的妈妈;一个不喜欢笑的妈妈;一个爱我的妈妈!

My mother

My mother’s name is nancy. She has long hair, two big eyes My mother likes sports and shopping. Her favourite sports are football and yoga. And her favourite food is ice cream. She also likes dogs and cats.

My mother is a high school techer, she works very hard and does very well in the school.

My mother also concerns my study. She always helps me study and play the piano. She is very glad when I make progress.

My mother loves me very much. And I love my mother too!

My mother is about 38 years old. She is short but she has long hair and beautiful eyes.

She likes sports. So she often play sports with me. And we are likes eating KFC too.

My mother is kind. She often look at me do homework.

My mother loves me. And I love my mother too. So I often give her some flowers and go to movies with her.

My mother has a pair of big eyes, hair is yellow, curly, there are some small white freckles on his face.

My mother loves me very much. I remember a math test. I only got 61 marks. When I got home, my mother asked, "how was your exam today?" How much did you get?" I hesitated for a moment, and I reluctantly spat out the words: "I got 61."." My mother dragged me into the room will be frightened and change color, but I know, my mother hit me, but the pain in her heart.

Remember my mother and I slept in the night, I kicked countless quilts, but mother always regret once again, my quilt again!!

This is my mother, a mother who loves me very much!!

The man I respect most is my mother, my favorite person is my mother, is the mother gave me life, taught me to be the truth, my mother gave me selfless love, let me grow.

My mother with a thick head of hair, round face, my mothers face like a red apple. Curved eyebrows, bright eyes, red lips, of medium height, very slim, about 30 years old, my mother is wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. My mother looks very beautiful, gentle, natural and graceful, has the compassion, careful, have what good things to me first.

One day, my mother and I at the gore silk on the way home saw a grandpa in selling small fish, I hurriedly ran over and saw the ground with a variety of aquarium, fish tank are: the parrot fish, guppy, golden dragon fish, fish, etc. I said: "mom, lets buy a few small fish." Mother said: "well, buy a few?" I say: "buy six fish!" We bought six guppy, careful, happily back home with the fish.

Mother brush the fish tank clean, then I will gently put little fish in the fish tank, little fish into the fish tank, is happy to swim in the water, the mother said: "after that let you to raise a few small fish!" I say: "ha ha, good!" I know this is mom in training me, patience, love of animals, in the future be a useful person in society.

Mother brought me a wonderful life, I have good good study, day day up and thanked my mothers support, there is only a mother good, have mama of children like a treasure.

我最尊敬的人是我的妈妈，我最爱的人也是妈妈，是妈妈给予我生命，教给我做人的道理，妈妈把无私的爱都给了我，让我茁壮成长。

我妈妈长着一头浓密的长发，圆圆的脸，我妈妈的脸像一个红苹果。弯弯的眉毛，明亮的眼睛，红红的嘴唇，中等身材，很苗条，我妈妈大约三十来岁，戴着一副金丝眼镜。我妈妈长得非常漂亮，性格温柔、落落大方、有爱心、细心，有什么好东西都先给我。

有一天，我和妈妈在学完葫芦丝回家的路上看见有一位老爷爷在卖小鱼，我连忙跑过去，只见地上摆放着各种各样的鱼缸，鱼缸里有：鹦鹉鱼、孔雀鱼、金龙鱼、金鱼等。我说：“妈妈，咱们买几条小鱼吧。”妈妈说：“好吧，买几条呢?”我说：“买六条鱼吧!”我们买了6条孔雀鱼，小心翼翼、高高兴兴的拎着小鱼回了家。

妈妈把鱼缸刷得干干净净，然后我就轻轻地把小鱼儿放进鱼缸里，小鱼儿一进鱼缸，就快活的在水中游来游去，妈妈说：“以后这几条小鱼让你来养吧!”我说：“哈哈，太好了!”我知道这是妈妈在培养我，对小动物的耐心、爱心，将来做一个对社会有用的人。

妈妈给我带来了美好的生活，我一定好好学习、天天向上，报答妈妈的养育之恩，世上只有妈妈好，有妈的孩子像个宝。

2013年北京高考英语作文题目：李华照顾生病的妈妈

北京的高考英语试题，第一篇作文题通常是情景作文，试题提供4到6幅图，让学生用英语讲述一个完整的故事，词数不少于60个。作文中要体现各幅图的要点和细节，并适当发挥。而每年图中都会出现同一个主人公即“李华”。学而思高考研究办公室蔺思文老师分析，今年的情景作文延续了北京历年来的叙事风格，连续四年主人公都是“李华”。今年作文题提供的4幅图中，李华在爸爸出差期间照顾生病的妈妈，属于常见的事件类作文。

Mother, how a loving word, how a warm word. My mother, such as the sun in winter, the breeze in the spring of the sea in the summer, the farmer in the fall uncle, always in someone else needs the place, came.

Although the mother has been thirty-four years old, but the years still in the mothers face can not stay traces. My mother often tied a golden ponytail child, but also thin and long willow under the eyebrow, a pair of bright and piercing water and spirit of the big eyes, always can see the sweet smile, thin cherry The lips, always can not help those who want to come out of the wind teeth. Mother is tall but slim, what clothes are very beautiful to wear, this is my mother.

In a winter vacation in my elementary school, I was at home, lying in bed muddyly squinting to think about things, and brother on the computer to fight, my father went to work early in the morning. Mother ready to go out, but see my grandmother did not get up, because my grandmother has always been up early, my mother can not help but confused. To turn the door lock, but the door was locked, and my mother was very anxious, loudly cried: "Mom, mother, you wake up? Mom, mother ... ..."

My mothers voice half awake I completely wake up, I was puzzled when the mother like the foot of the oil, flew in the bedroom drawer turned up, and saw her mother picked up a bunch of keys and went out. I followed the past, my mother picked up one of the keys to open the door of grandmother, while the father called: "Hey, her husband? You quickly go home, we mother out of things, hurry!"

Mom looked anxious to open the door, and saw the grandmother pale in bed tummy, my mother was busy to call the aunt, but also while pushing the grandmother: "Mom, mother, you wake up ... ..." Dad came, my father back to the car, my mother was in the back to take care of my grandmother, a few weeks passed, my grandmother finally discharged. Neighbors said: "If not your mother, your grandmother would be dead." Yes ah, if not my mother always care about my grandmother, maybe my grandmother would be dead, my mother really very pro, very cute.

This is my mother, a moment of care for someone elses mother, I love my mother.

[写人物的英语作文：我的妈妈

My mother is a ordinary women．She is a very very ordinary women，really．She looks like very ordinary；her age very ordinary；only her wears looks like very special．

My mother always wear a wide casual pants，a T－shirt （or a wide vest），and a pair of sunglasses．She always use toiletry，consequently shes skin was very good．

My mother is very benignant，and she was very love me．I with regard to these，I to be thankful．I love my mother ， too．Because she gave me very very many．She civilize by education me how to do in world and knowledge．

My mother is a office workers．She everyday works hard，but she always not to get heighten．

I love my mother，because she gave me very many thinks．

I love my Mum ．A ordinary and largeness mother．

My mother is the most diligent person in my house, she takes care of me all the time and does all the housework. As I grow up, I realize that my mother is such a great woman, what she does for us surpasses everything. I find my mother’s hands are not as smooth as other person’s, but in my eyes, they are the most beautiful hands.

我妈妈是房子里最勤奋的人,她一直照顾我，做了所有的家务。当我长大了,我意识到母亲是这样一个伟大的女人,她为我们所做的事情超越了一切。我发现妈妈的手不像别人一样光滑,但是在我眼里,却是最美丽的手。

1、I have bought food that I hope will please my mother, and that will be easy for her to eat: orzo salad with little pieces of crayfish cut into it, potato salad, small chunks of marinated tomatoes.

2、l have brought her a bouquet of crimson, yellow, and salmon-pink snapdragons. She likes the flowers very much.

3、 As I wipe my mothers face, I see that her skin is still beautiful I hold her chin in my hand and kiss her forehead.

My mother has no idea that her ninetieth birthday is coming up. She has no notion of the time of day, the day of the week. the season of the year, the year of the century. No notion of the approaching millennium. And no idea any longer, who I am. Her forgetting of me happened just a few months ago, after I had been traveling for more than a month and hadnt been to see her. When I came back, she asked me if I were her niece, l said no, I was her daughter. "Does that mean I had you?" she asked. 1 said yes. "Where was I when l had you?" she asked me. I told her she was in a hospital in Far Rockaway. New York. "So much has happened to me in my life." she said "You cant expect me to remember everything."

My mother was once a beautiful woman, but all her teeth are gone now. Toothless. No woman can be considered beautiful. Whenever I visit her in the nursing home, she is sitting at the table in the common dining room, her head in her hands, rocking. Medication has eased her anxiety, but nothing moves her from her stupor except occasional moments of fear, too deep for medication. This is a room that has no windows, that lets in no light, in which an overlarge TV is constantly blaring, sending images that no one looks at where the floors are beige tiles, the walls cream colored at the bottom, papered halfway up with a pattern of nearly invisible grayish leaves. Many of the residents sit staring, slack-jawed, open mouthed. I find it impossible to imagine what they might be looking at.

When I walk into the dining room on the day of my mothers birthday, I see that she has already been served lunch. The staff has forgotten to hold it back. Though I told them a week ago that I would be providing lunch. She hasn’t touched anything on her tray except a piece of carrot cake, which she holds in her hands. The icing is smeared on her hands and face. I dont want my friends to see her smeared with icing, so I wet a paper towel and wipe her. This fills me with a terrible tenderness, recalling, as it does. a gesture I have performed for my children. As I wipe my mothers face, I see that her skin is still beautiful I hold her chin in my hand and kiss her forehead. I tell her its her birthday, that shes ninety years old. "How did that happen?" she asks. "I cant understand how that could happen."

l have brought her a bouquet of crimson, yellow, and salmon-pink snapdragons. She likes the flowers very much. She likes the name. "Snapdragons. It seems like an animal thats going to bite inc. But its not an animal, its a plant. Thats a funny thing,"

I have bought food that I hope will please my mother, and that will be easy for her to eat: orzo salad with little pieces of crayfish cut into it, potato salad, small chunks of marinated tomatoes. I have bought paper plates with a rust-colored background, upon which are painted yellow and gold flowers and blue leaves.

My friends Nola and Gary come for my mothers birthday. When we are about to leave, I tell my mother that Im going on vacation, mat I wont see her for three weeks, that 1 am going to the sea. "How will I stand that, how will I stand thats she says, but I know that a minute after I’m gone shell forget I was there.