Mutti’s Mushroom Soup and Our Last Lunch

My Mutti made me mushroom soup the last time I visited her, not knowing it would be the last time.

 

She had moved out to the Maritimes by then. On the final day of that visit, she asked my husband and me to come over for lunch. She made mushroom soup because she knew it was my favorite. It was hers too.

 

Then she mentioned she hadn’t been feeling well lately, and that still gets to me. She didn’t have to make lunch. She certainly didn’t have to make my favorite soup. But that was Mutti.

 

When I told her she didn’t need to fuss, she smiled and said it was quick and easy.