Oh, how mom loved the lottery. She liked the ones were you picked the numbers, but she loved to play the scratch tickets! It soon became a Christmas eve tradition, strange I know, but the kids had all out grown opening up pj's on Christmas eve so we had to have something to replace it, and mom chose scratch tickets. Here is Kym having a laugh about it and making a necklace out of it.
Everyone waiting to scratch their tickets . . .
Mom even bought them sometimes for birthdays, she taught Kevin well!
Another Christmas eve, look at her and Mark go.
Mom loved to gamble. I remember her in Reno, she would stick some coins in a machine and then hop to another machine usually walking away with a cup full of coins. One time in Reno I remember her walking over to me with three cups full of quarters saying come on let's go, I think I broke the machine. I asked her what she was talking about, she said this all came out and then it stopped working. I asked her to show me the machine, turned out she had hit a big one and didn't realize that after 2000 coins an attendant had to finish the pay out. Once we moved to Las Vegas she loved making trips here. She'd be up bright and early wondering which casino we should start at that day. I truly miss those visits and all the playing we would do. Needless to say I think I will find one of her favorite machines on the 14th and put a few dollars in for the memories.
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