Have A Memorable Mother’s Day.

I hope you have all wished your Mom, Mum, Mother, Ma, & to yourself…….a wonderful & Happy Mother’s Day!.

Yesterday I heard someone say; “everyday is Mothers day, why is tomorrow any different”…….

My mother is no longer living, & to hear a comment like that hit me like an arrow through my heart.  I felt myself just go cold & just stood there, my mind started playing back a collage of memories of the special days we always had for her.

My earliest memory of Mothers Day for my Mom, was a bouquet of flowers I picked myself for her.  I had picked the flowers the day before & I could hardly keep my mouth shut about it because I was so proud & that I did it all by myself. 

The morning of Mom’s special day, I remember Dad saying to me, “let’s go outside a minute”.  Knowing that was not unusual to take me along, I eagerly ran out the door in my bare my bare feet after him.  I knew whenever we went somewhere, he was going to show me something new & oh, how I loved being with him.  Dad was so smart, he even knew how to put a worm on a hook so it would stay on & not wiggle off like when I did it.  Wow, how I wanted & wished to be smart like him when I grew up.

 

Out in the backyard, I followed Dad like a puppy as he went around into the big shed off the garage.  Over where I was hiding Mom’s gift, he picked up my flowers I picked out for Mom & kneeled down beside me.  He said, “What do you think Lin, they look a little tired this morning, how about if I go with you to where you got these.  You can pick out some more flowers that are more awake than this bouquet for Mom”.  Well, I had to think about it for a minute, then I beamed & thought, what a great idea, Mom will be so happy with awake flowers.

Off we went, Dad & I, so I could show him my special place where I picked out Mom’s flowers yesterday.  When we got there, I pointed to Dad to the fence by the water, oh they still all looked so beautiful & awake!

I ran ahead to the flowers & started picking more flowers right away, Dad was right these do look more awake this morning than the ones I picked out yesterday.  Wow, so many I kept picking & picking, making the biggest bouquet I’d ever seen.  Thanks Dad, you are so smart & know more than just hooking worms for fishing!  

Beaming with excitement, I couldn’t wait to get back home to give Mom my present to her on Mother’s Day, she’s going to be so happy!  But Dad kept me back with him, while telling me “I’ve got an idea”.  Dad always had the best ideas.

As we got closer to our house, we crossed over to one of Dad’s gardens (he had 2 huge gardens) & stopped.  He looked down at the patch of Asparagus & said:  “What do you think Lin”?  Oh yea, I said as we both got down on the ground & started picking/cutting fresh Asparagus (Dad always had his pocket knife with him & I too had the tiny one he gave me in my pocket, just like Dad).  While we were cutting asparagus for dinner, finally Dad said; “you think we’ve got enough?”  Yup, I said, let’s go Mom is going to love this, all her favorites, asparagus & flowers!”

Oh I was just busting I was so proud of my gift to Mom, & she was so surprised when I gave her my big bouquet of flowers, smiling while giving me one of her big warm huge hugs while whispering “I love you sweetie” in my ear like she always does.  She took my huge bouquet of “awake” Dandelions & put them in her best vase & set them in the middle of the dinner table for everyone to see.  I was so excited to see Mom fuss over those flowers I picked for her, I could barely eat………

Suddenly, I heard something from a distance & noticed someone talking right there in front of me; “hey lady, are you alright”?  I looked at the man who was just saying; “everyday is mothers day, why is tomorrow any different”…….  I realized I had not only just slipped off to one of my Mom’s many Mother’s Days, but the very 1st one I could remember, of many.

That episode yesterday in the store was so vivid of that day, which were like so many we had together in our happy house.  I thought about that all night through & into today.  I know I will never have those days again to celebrate Mother’s Day, I will never be able to feel her energy, to see the smile on her face, to feel the big super warm hugs she always gave, to have that wonderful smell of her soaps & lotions fill the air like a colorful scented garden, to hear the whispers in my ear with her hugs: “I love you sweetie”……. because my Mom is no longer here, she died in 1996, five (5) years after my Dad, the love of her life.

Quite honestly, I write this blog today, as a tribute, because of a story I heard first thing this morning from a very dear friend of mine in New Zealand.  My friend, whom I’d love to acknowledge, but will withhold her name in respect of her privacy beyond her circle of friends, is truly a remarkable woman.  She did something today, that has freed her heart & soul from all the toxic rot that’s built up  within her.  She had a wonderful breakthrough this morning with her own Mum, by stepping up & reaching out & calling her Mum, to her on Mother’s Day, to tell her she loved her.  Despite the years of choppy ground, this wonderful woman initiated the contact to reunite with her Mum, after hearing just 5 words that says it all from her husband, that after all these years, made so much sense:  “just do it for you”.

So what do this story of my friend have to do with you?  Everything.

Not everyone has happy memories, like I just shared in this post.  Not everyone has a relationship with their mother for whatever reason, not everyone has their mother still here & has passed on, like my mother.

But regardless of your situation, you DO have the power to: “just do it for you”….

So, today I would like to just suggest to all of you who have or had Mom’s. Mum’s, Mamma”s, Ma’s Mummie’s, Mothers, regardless of your current issues, pick up a phone, look them in the eye, or look up to the heavens, & say Happy Mother’s Day, I love you, & I miss you……

“There is nothing, like the love of a mother”……….

 

See you tomorrow……..  

 

 

 

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