TO EVERY MOTHER

05/13/07

The year was 1978 and my mother was 68 years old, too young to pass away and leave me.In my hurt and crying, I was angry with her for leaving me. Yes, I had that audacity to feel that way! She was leaving me to face years of being without her, never to feel her hug again, never to pick her up from bingo again, never to ask her how to make something exactly like she made it again, never to take her shopping with us again, never, never, never.Very rarely a day goes by that I do not think of her. A couple weeks ago when I asked my husband if what I had fixed for dinner tasted like Mommie's and he said, "Hon, don't you think it is time to just make it the way you want to make it?" One thing I have realized through out the years. The memories become more precious, I realized in my loneliness for her that many other people became like a mother to me, my Aunt Katy, my husband, friends who gave me advice, my sister, my own children, and I have realized that I can be a mother to many also and just keep it going in a full circle.Embracing these thoughts have made me stronger, have given me courage, a love of life to enjoy every second of it.So, I say this to all the mothers who have children, the women who do not have children, the women who are going to have children, There is nothing like a mother.HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!!!