we're getting ready to go live via satellite to indianapolis the home of my mother let me
tell you a couple of things about ma she was just in town i think two weeks ago where my
son goes to kindergarten they had grandparents day and it's a lovely thing and what they're
really trying to do is squeeze some money out of the old folks but that's another story
so a mom comes in and tours the kinney garden and that was a lot of fun and now
she's back there in indianapolis and what you have to keep in mind here when you
look at this woman shortly within a couple of months she will be 89 years old 89 years old
and what it's come down to after all these years she and i used to have three things we could talk
about one the weather and then and it's not as dull as you might think because she lives in
indiana and because of the prevailing winds most of that weather comes up the northeast to us right
so i will you know it's better than the weather channel you know a couple of days in advance
what's going on that's good weather yeah her garden loves loves to garden all her life has been
gardening enjoys that and her cat we used to talk about her cat well a few years ago the cat died so
now we're down to two so so tonight what i'm going to try and do is get uh and this is not prepared
a story from mom i'm going to walk her down memory lane and see if we can get some insight as to my
boyhood and her when she was a younger mother so that's what we're going to try to do here tonight
it's in honor of mother's day did you do the thing turn on the here we go ladies and gentlemen
hi mom hi dave nice to see you
you look very nice mom thank you is that a new uh jacket there well i'll be honest no it is not
brand new it looks brand new you take nice care of it how old is that garment i have no idea yeah
would you say it's a year old it's probably more like two two so in fact you do have an idea yeah
okay hey mom let's have some real fun let's have some real fun boy your kitchen looks lovely by
the way congratulations on that kitchen it's very nice now let's have some real fun you're standing
by your gas stove there right right all right now i see the right front burner the right front right
there put your hand on that take a beat and then scream go ahead put it on there go ahead drop it
right on there i'm not a good screamer now come on man you just set fire to your hand let's hear it
nice all right well thanks for trying mom
how you doing how's everything everything's fine yeah uh what'd you do today activities
well yes the tv crew is here almost all day so yeah we've been well bye count the silverware
make sure you inventory all of your valuable items because they're just thieving thugs you
know those bums you might as well have the place full of carnival workers no they're really great
guys yeah that's sure yeah that's what you say now i'll talk to you later about this
uh how's the weather mom it's been a beautiful day sun shining light breeze temperature good
how's the garden
the garden's coming along nicely what kind of stuff do you have
well i have garden peas those are the best but you can't here's my experiences you can't plant enough
peas because uh they're so tasty and they go so quickly you gotta have a couple of thousand acres
in peas right well not quite but anyway i have a couple of rows and that's fine yeah well good for
you and you still enjoy it what about tomatoes is gonna be a good year for tomatoes it's too
early for tomatoes here yet not till the end of may up here you can't plant until the end of may
well it's middle of may here
oh yeah i forgot you're in a different time zone that's right
um hey mom thanks for coming into town a couple of weeks ago i hope you had a nice time it was a
lovely time to be with harry and his schoolmates and then to see see your garden and it was lovely
now you have uh you have five grandkids right you have three what are their names one of them's who
are the kids one of them's named anna grace one of them's named liam one of them's named bill one
of them's named brynn and the fifth one is harry is that is that the rundown that's a rundown and
honestly your favorite is is who they're all my favorites no no come on froze you know that
that's not what you said after a couple of bloody marys
no yeah now mom uh before we get on to the top ten here i don't want to put you on the spot
do you have a a story uh from my childhood something something fun something exciting
something dramatic or or something shocking as you look back on it now
in in all of the years that we were living under the same roof anything stick out as a way to kind
of clarify to focus what the what it was like to have a son well it was lovely to have a son
first off and when he was three years old we were driving down the street and it was
well there wasn't air conditioning in cars then so the windows were down and we saw a car
a couple of little girls walking along the street and you yelled out the window hi pretty girls
thanks mom you asked for it all right
okay are you ready here mom uh the uh the top ten list for mother's day uh 670 million dollars will
be spent on mother's day cards this year hey here we go did we open the deal it is open okay top
10 pieces of pieces of advice top 10 pieces of advice for being a good mother and that
certainly was my mom top 10 pieces of advice for being a good mother here we go number 10.
even if you're not say you're proud okay good number nine don't stare at the hair piece
number eight kids love construction sites
number seven lower your expectations
uh number six when your child won't stop crying say enough david you're 63.
number five to keep baby company how about a raccoon yes how about a raccoon
at number four if he learns to shoot pool you'll never go hungry
number three there's no better babysitter than television okay
number two no matter how much he begs don't go to the prom with him all right
and the number one piece of advice for being a good mother
once they're 18 they ain't your problem
there you are mom thank you very much happy mother's day nice job
love you i love you too mom there you go we'll be right back with amanda