5/12/2012

Sometimes a kid can sum up your feelings exactly...

That is what happened to me today. Since tomorrow is Mother's Day, I made my Mom a box with silk flowers for her grave. I always gave my Mom flowers or plants for Mother's Day and the tradition did not end when she died. I took the kids to visit my Dad and then we headed to the cemetery. We cleaned off her stone and put down the flowers. The five of us stood there quiet for a moment then Nick broke down because he misses her so much, which in turn had Allison crying. I was doing a decent job keeping my feelings in check until Alexander in his wise beyond his years voice said just plainly, "I just wish I had more time with her." Oh boy, did those floodgates I had shut, open wide! He summed up all of what we were feeling in just one simple sentence. Tomorrow will not be any easier because three years have passed, in fact I still can't fathom that it has been three years. The pain has gotten better with time, but part of my heart is still gone. The picture below was taken about a year before she died. We took her to the zoo with us and we all had a wonderful time. The kids thought it was fabulous that she let them take turns riding on her lap in the wheelchair and to this day still talk about how fun that was. So Happy Mother's Day to the greatest Mom I could have asked for.







A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.  ~Washington Irving