Sonia, you were blessed in so many ways to have her as long as you did. And she is blessed to have you and your siblings to honor and remember her the way that you do. What a wonderful thing!
I have been thinking about you because I remembred that this was your first mothers' day since your mom's passing. I know it must have been a difficult day.
Ah, Jackie.....thank you. Actually my son made it a very nice day for me....even though the thought of her came to mind often, Anthony was such a dear all day that my day was much nicer than I expected.
We are never prepared to lose our mothers. I still have my mother, though as she grows older, I'm afraid she is so cranky it is hard to enjoy spending time with her, though I try, But, I know I will miss her terribly when she is gone. I missed my grandmother for almost 20 years.
I'm really sorry that your mom is hard to spend time with, Gina. I'm so glad that ours wasn't cranky.....oh, she could be stubborn, but not cranky ;-) - she was also funny without trying. She could come up with the funniest remarks, in all seriousness, too.... and would keep us and the nurses and aides at the assisted living where our parents were living, in stitches!
beautiful and well expressed Sonia - hugs on you. my mom passed away on May 22, 2006 - in ways the moments of missing her now are as intense if not more so than that first year after she passed. i frequently take photos of the yellow hibiscus i planted for her where she used to often sit when i'd work on my bonsai. one of the things that helps now is finding people who have special occasions on May 22, a birthday, a graduation day and so on. i often feel it in the days before May 22. on that day i also feel it but i also know she wanted life to go on and it's easier to go on to the next days from there while remembering her too.
Mahalo nui loa, Wrick... I know my siblings and I are fortunate to have had her in our lives for so long, but the pain is still there. I can't count the times during the day that I catch myself saying "Mother would love this" or I feel the urge to tell her little things that happen. She had a dry and wicked sense of humor and some of the things that would occur to her would just make us shake our heads.... Like once in traffic (back in the days when she drove) she stopped the car a bit late at a light and scared the living daylights out of a driver coming across from her left...when he blew the horn at her, she just started throwing kisses at him with her hands like a child would do....the man ended up laughing his head off as he drove on...........and another time rewrapping a gift (the kind my son and I refer to as a "que lindo" gift....the kind you just can't keep no matter who gave it to you...) and set it on the top of the trunk of a car in another row in the parking lot of the mall and then watched people as they went by and decided whether to grab it or not.....and the two women who finally after a couple of passes, very casually walked by and smoothly picked it up as they walked.....and then she wondered what their faces looked like when they opened it...
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Donna, yes, we were very blessed to have had her in our lives. She was really a remarkable woman and one who left a big imprint on many lives.
beautiful and well expressed Sonia - hugs on you. my mom passed away on May 22, 2006 - in ways the moments of missing her now are as intense if not more so than that first year after she passed. i frequently take photos of the yellow hibiscus i planted for her where she used to often sit when i'd work on my bonsai. one of the things that helps now is finding people who have special occasions on May 22, a birthday, a graduation day and so on. i often feel it in the days before May 22. on that day i also feel it but i also know she wanted life to go on and it's easier to go on to the next days from there while remembering her too.
Mahalo nui loa, Wrick... I know my siblings and I are fortunate to have had her in our lives for so long, but the pain is still there. I can't count the times during the day that I catch myself saying "Mother would love this" or I feel the urge to tell her little things that happen. She had a dry and wicked sense of humor and some of the things that would occur to her would just make us shake our heads.... Like once in traffic (back in the days when she drove) she stopped the car a bit late at a light and scared the living daylights out of a driver coming across from her left...when he blew the horn at her, she just started throwing kisses at him with her hands like a child would do....the man ended up laughing his head off as he drove on...........and another time rewrapping a gift (the kind my son and I refer to as a "que lindo" gift....the kind you just can't keep no matter who gave it to you...) and set it on the top of the trunk of a car in another row in the parking lot of the mall and then watched people as they went by and decided whether to grab it or not.....and the two women who finally after a couple of passes, very casually walked by and smoothly picked it up as they walked.....and then she wondered what their faces looked like when they opened it...
I do miss her!
beautiful!!
Thank you, Fran
beautiful!
thanks for posting to Photos in Bloom
Thank you, Angela!