Living without mom...memories....

I'm not only a daughter but also a mother myself. But I lost my mom when I was nine years old. I never got to tell her goodbye and I never knew she was really sick until I was told she was gone...now 40 years later I still have issues...I'm better but I still have my moments. So my memories of her are fragmented with small glimpses of memories that suddenly come up out of the blue whenever I'm busy doing something else. I never know what causes it...maybe a smile from someone, a tone of their voice. Maybe it's a smell...you know the kind of perfume she wore.... I can't remember her voice...it's been too long. I don't have many pictures of her...we were really poor . So my favorite memory of her was sitting on the porch and we were talking about who would take care of her when she got too old to take care of herself....and I being only 8 at the time gallantly offered to care for her when she was infirm...she just laughed and told me what a great kid I was.....never got to do that....she died when she was 42..... Do you have a specific memory of Mom that you remember and cherish?