Today, this Mother's Day, marks the one year anniversary of my blog. I was going to let the day pass without blogging (why not, since it has been weeks since I have written!) and today was "my" day and I was allowed to do whatever I wanted (sort of). But, then I remembered that this was THE anniversary of my start date and I had chosen Mother's Day to kick it off because it is such a special day to me. So, how could I let this go by?
So, most of all I want to tell my mama just how much I love her. My mom means the world to me, she is supportive and loving, and generous and kind, and real. She comes to visit us from Seattle and plays with the kids, folds the laundry, washes the dishes, drives the carpool, cooks the dinner, and does just about everything you would dream of having done for you on a daily basis. AND, she does it because she wants to, purely from the heart. Cause she knows... knows how much it helps, how hard it can be sometimes to keep it all together as a mother. She did it, she did it for me when I was growing up, and she did it so well. So well, that I only have memories of love and feeling safe and being most always happy (minus those teen years when I just could not stand to be around her- ha!). Oh, and now, as my oldest daughter enters that age of craziness, my mom is there supporting me, reading for me, sending me gentle advice... because she is still this dedicated and she loves my children as much as I do, I know that. I am so lucky, so blessed, and I could not ask for anyone more amazing to be my mom.
Mom, forgive me that your card did not arrive on time (this is becoming a pattern, I know). Since this is so, I had to write to you here, for the world to see! It seems these past couple of years the days just whiz by faster and faster and well, I have not been keeping up with things as I would like to. Thus, the intermittent blog posts here and less frequent phone conversations with mom. So, I am going to try to be better...
And, sadly, I am rather disorganized with my own personal images, that I do not have one to easily share of my beautiful mom today... but, maybe you can imagine how brightly she shines without a picture.
I love you mom, xo,
me
*AND HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL YOU AMAZING MOTHER'S OUT THERE!