Ghosts and other things...

[jenp_97]

Laila wrote:

> Now this scared me, my son was about 1 yrs old and 
> we were home alone. He kept talking about Diego. I 
> asked "Who is Diego?" and he pointed out of my room 
> and into the hallway and said
> 
> "right there MaMa." I could not freak out and react, 
> and I thought to myself that maybe it was an imaginary 
> friend. But at 1? It still gives me the creeps.
> 

I remember when Ginger was younger, she'd freak me out 
every once in a while by "channeling" my mother and 
talking about her.  My mom died when I was 8, and we 
named Ginger after her (Virginia).  Anyway, she used 
to say weird things like, "When you were a baby in *my* 
tummy," and, "When you were a little girl, I'd 
[something], too."  She called me Jenny once, too, 
which nobody else EVER calls me, but my mother called 
me all the time.  And there were a couple of times when 
she would say things like, "Grandma Ginger likes this 
picture!" or "I like it when Grandma Ginger tells me a 
story at night."

She hasn't said things like that for about a 
year-and-a-half, though.  I could don my linguistics 
cap and just explain it away by saying that she was 
too young to mentally grasp personal pronouns, and I 
could say that she wasn't old enough to understand the 
difference between real and pretend... but that would 
take some of the magic out of it, wouldn't it?  I 
mean, I'd LOVE to know that my mother was hanging 
around and getting to know my children.

JenP, who wishes her mom would talk to her sometimes, 
too...