Mom's Grocery Lists

an envelope filled with magic...

If you’re wondering where my love for handwriting came from, it was from my Mom! She went to Catholic school and learned penmanship & cursive from the nuns. She had such distinct handwriting and I looooved watching her write. Bev was a Capricorn and I read somewhere a long time ago that not only do Capricorns thrive on organized chaos, but they’re also avid list makers.

I suppose that’s where my love for lists comes from…

This is my Mom’s last grocery list. She went to Costco the night before she was rushed to the hospital. I found it in her purse when while looking for her wallet in the ER. We found the groceries in the back of her car a few days after she died. She stocked my Dad up before she left.

Seeing the Cheerio made me giggle. I wonder what that last C was…

After she died, I stumbled into A LOT OF her lists while I was cleaning out her kitchen. Most of them were in were in old recycled notebooks (from my childhood!) and a bunch of scrap paper/charity notepads she got in the mail. I shoved them all in an envelope for safekeeping and I look at them every now and then when I need a “hit” of her.