Now She Won't Be Quiet

A friend of my mother’s was in town last week for a visit. She helped me so much when my mom was sick and I could not have gotten through all that without her. I was eager to ask her about my mom and the memories she had of her. We didn’t have the chance to talk a lot about her since she brought her adorable granddaughter with her, but she told me this story that my mom had told her years ago. When I was in school my kindergarten teacher told my mother she was concerned about me because I never spoke in class. She told her that I might not make it to first grade if I didn’t make an effort to speak. During the Spring Break of that year my mother kept telling me that I had to speak up in class, because in first grade they expected you to talk. While driving me to school the first day back from vacation, I asked my mother if we were going to kindergarten or first grade. When she told me kindergarten, I responded, “Good, I don’t have to talk yet.”