My mother passed away a few years ago, and I wished that I had more memories of her.

I'm literally choked up after reading your reply and all of the comments that came after it. Life is way too fucking short, and we're all hedging our bets that things will remain the same for a long ass time. They won't. Tell her you love and miss her and make an effort to be with her if it is possible. I'll never have that chance with my mother again. It really hurts .

I struggle a lot to remember times with her while she was alive.

What I do remember is once, she thought it was hilarious to put a candle in a slimfast bar instead of getting me a cookie cake (my favorite cake) for my birthday. She was so serious and I was so... confused. The whole day I thought, that was a joke, she's going to show me the cake soon. Nope, no cake that day. I laugh about it now and it was a funny store to share with others. She had a great sense of humor.

She would always ask me "When are you leaving?" when I returned home from college. It was a running joke in my family after I pointed it out the first time to her that it sounded like she was ready to get me out of the house, when really, in her head, she was thinking about what she can plan for me while I was home. She would cook lobster or make my favorite persian food, Kabobs.

God I miss persian food. I wish I took the time to learn how to make it. I'll never have that chance at least learning from her, the one whom made me try so many things I thought I would never like.

I remember another time when we were in Florida, and I had never had seafood before, and she was dangling crab leg meat at me saying "You know you want to try it, it's delicious!!" and I kept saying, "Nope, nope, nope"... and eventually caved in and tried it. I had 25 crab legs that day after that.

Mom, I wish you were still alive to meet my girlfriend. Too bad you won't be physically there for my future wedding and to see your grand kids. I miss you so much mom :[