reasonsilovemymother: Reason #104: She kept a small TV in her bathroom where she got ready each morning so that she could watch The Today Show. She liked seeing New York and knowing I was in there somewhere, and would check up on the weather I was having on any given day. When I first moved to New York, she also watched in case I “passed by on the way to work one day”, and even though I told her I don’t work in Rockefeller Plaza and I don’t begin work at 5am, she kept looking anyway, just in case. I should have walked by one morning. Coulda, woulda, shoulda. This one breaks my heart. My sister lives in New York now and whenever my mom and I are watching a show based there, my mom can’t help but say, “Can you believe Taylor’s there?” And I say, “Yes.” Because, well, I can. I should just start giving her a hug when she says that, because she’s probably really saying, “My daughter is too far away from me.”

reasonsilovemymother:

Reason #104:

She kept a small TV in her bathroom where she got ready each morning so that she could watch The Today Show. She liked seeing New York and knowing I was in there somewhere, and would check up on the weather I was having on any given day.

When I first moved to New York, she also watched in case I “passed by on the way to work one day”, and even though I told her I don’t work in Rockefeller Plaza and I don’t begin work at 5am, she kept looking anyway, just in case.

I should have walked by one morning.

Coulda, woulda, shoulda.

This one breaks my heart. My sister lives in New York now and whenever my mom and I are watching a show based there, my mom can’t help but say, “Can you believe Taylor’s there?” And I say, “Yes.” Because, well, I can.

I should just start giving her a hug when she says that, because she’s probably really saying, “My daughter is too far away from me.”