60 Questions to Ask Mom

How to use these: Pick two or three questions at a time. Ask over coffee or a drive, listen more than you talk, and consider recording her answers. The little details are the ones you’ll treasure.

Childhood & Growing Up

1. What is your earliest memory?
2. What was the house you grew up in like? Describe your favorite room.
3. Who were your best friends as a girl, and what did you do together?
4. What was a typical Saturday like when you were ten?
5. What chores did you have, and which did you secretly enjoy?
6. What did you want to be when you grew up?
7. What was your favorite subject in school, and who was your favorite teacher?
8. What is something you got in trouble for that still makes you laugh?
9. What songs, radio shows, or TV programs filled your childhood?
10. What was the best gift you ever received as a child?

Faith

11. Who first taught you about God?
12. What church did you attend growing up, and what do you remember about it?
13. When did your faith become your own?
14. What Bible verse has carried you through hard seasons?
15. Tell me about a time you saw God answer a prayer.
16. Was there a season you struggled with your faith? What brought you through?
17. What hymn or worship song means the most to you, and why?
18. How did you try to pass your faith on to us?
19. What do you pray for most often for our family?
20. What would you want your great-grandchildren to know about God?

Love, Marriage & Family

21. How did you meet Dad? What was your first impression?
22. What was your first date like?
23. How did you know he was the one?
24. What do you remember most about your wedding day?
25. What was your first home together like?
26. What is the hardest thing you and Dad worked through together?
27. What is the secret to a marriage that lasts?
28. What was your relationship with your own mother like?
29. What did you admire most about your father?
30. Which family member do you think I’m most like?

Motherhood

31. How did you feel when you found out you were going to be a mom?
32. What do you remember about the day I was born?
33. What was I like as a baby?
34. What was the hardest part of being a young mother?
35. What was a moment you felt proudest of being a mom?
36. What is something you worried about that turned out fine?
37. What did you do to get through long, tired days?
38. What is one thing you did differently from how you were raised?
39. What is a funny thing I said or did as a child that you never forgot?
40. What do you hope I remember most about the way you raised me?

Life Lessons

41. What is the best advice anyone ever gave you?
42. What is something you know now that you wish you’d known at twenty?
43. What is the bravest thing you have ever done?
44. What is a mistake that taught you something important?
45. How do you get through grief or loss?
46. What does a good life look like to you?
47. What are you most proud of?
48. Is there anything you still dream of doing?
49. How do you want to be remembered?
50. What would you tell me to hold onto when life gets hard?

Traditions & Recipes

51. What holiday traditions did your family have growing up?
52. What did Christmas morning look like in your house as a girl?
53. Which family recipe should never be lost? Will you teach it to me?
54. Who taught you to cook, and what was the first thing you made?
55. What dish always reminds you of your mother?
56. What traditions did you start in our family, and why?
57. What was Sunday dinner like when you were young?
58. Is there a family heirloom with a story behind it?
59. What birthday do you remember most, and why?
60. What tradition do you hope we keep going for generations?