Happy Birthday, Mom! :-)
Just a quickie because I really do need to finish getting ready and scurry off to work.
Today would have been my mom's 82nd birthday. She's been gone for seven years now, and although the pain of her absence has lessened slightly, there's still a hole in my life that I doubt will ever be filled. Like any mother-daughter relationship, we didn't always agree and I didn't always appreciate the things she asked of me. However, I thank God for my mother because I know that much of who I am today is because of her love and the things she taught me.
The final years of her life were not easy for her healthwise, and I was sometimes annoyed at the time it took from my life, but I wouldn't trade any one of those days, no matter how difficult they were on all of us. I'd give anything to have the chance to tell her one more time how much I love her and to thank her for everything she did for me, but for now the best I can do is to try to honor her memory by being the person she taught me to be.
So, happy birthday Mom...thanks for everything...I love you and miss you but I'm thankful that you are no longer suffering and in pain.
Thanks, F-list, for listening.
Blessings,
Jennie :-)
Today would have been my mom's 82nd birthday. She's been gone for seven years now, and although the pain of her absence has lessened slightly, there's still a hole in my life that I doubt will ever be filled. Like any mother-daughter relationship, we didn't always agree and I didn't always appreciate the things she asked of me. However, I thank God for my mother because I know that much of who I am today is because of her love and the things she taught me.
The final years of her life were not easy for her healthwise, and I was sometimes annoyed at the time it took from my life, but I wouldn't trade any one of those days, no matter how difficult they were on all of us. I'd give anything to have the chance to tell her one more time how much I love her and to thank her for everything she did for me, but for now the best I can do is to try to honor her memory by being the person she taught me to be.
So, happy birthday Mom...thanks for everything...I love you and miss you but I'm thankful that you are no longer suffering and in pain.
Thanks, F-list, for listening.
Blessings,
Jennie :-)