Hush!

My mom used to talk loud and was very boisterous back in the day. She reminded me of my sister both of them couldn't whisper to save their necks. When they talked the whole room could hear them if they wanted to or not. Fast forward to today. My sister is still loud and can't whisper to save her life but my mom on the other hand has turned into the whisperer. I don't know how this happened but one day she just started talking low and even my son had a hard time hearing her and now we all are finding ourselves asking her to repeat things in a louder voice. Maybe it is because of all the daily noise around her. The TV she watches all day is turned up, the ringing of the phone sometimes with the ringer on high because she said she can't hear it on low, the noise of the barking dogs outside and the people hanging outside talking most of the day and sometimes the night too, the sound of car alarms sounding off once or twice a day in the neighborhood, the slamming of the neighbor's screen door across the street, the sounds of the parking lot with the cars coming and going underneath the window, or the sound of the trains coming and going and all the other sounds that we have become used to hearing during the days around here that are loud. Maybe just maybe because of all these sounds and more my mom feels the need to be quiet at times to whisper. 

I don't really know and I doubt that she really knows herself. But, nonetheless, whispering has become her preference in speaking and we all just go with that. My son has become the "grandma whisperer" in a sense. He sits close to her when she is talking and he listens to every word carefully and then repeats it back to me or whomever she is addressing at the time.  On the days and times he is not available she will sometimes talk a little louder especially when she is tired of repeating herself over and over. 

Today is a pretty good day.