I'm noticing lately that my mother is a) repeating herself a lot and b)yes, just like yours, focussing on trivial stuff. I know wayyyy tooo much about her household redecoration project and what the neighbor's children are doing. And these are neighbors I've only ever met at my dad's funeral! But I'm equally guilty of the big-things-in-a-casual-way, so I can't really complain. I just forget what I've told people/assume that everyone is psychic.