1. My laugh -- it sounds like hers to me. When I laugh sometimes I think she's in the room!
2. Some of my facial expressions -- sometimes I look at a picture of me and I see my mother
3. "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" -- my father sang that to her a lot when I was a kid. Yeah, he's deaf and yeah, he was way off tune
4. Flowers and gardens -- she's got a green thumb and always has stuff growing
5. Maryland style oven roasted chicken -- one of her specialties
6. Baltimore Orioles -- my mom's a rabid fan, especially of the 1966 team
7. Cats -- Mom's always having cats adopt her too
8. Wheel Of Fortune -- another strong fan of that game show
9. Dancing -- she & my dad are like the Deaf Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
10. Sign Language