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I would like to wish the mothers and grandmothers who read my posts a very happy Mother’s Day! May you have a blessed day with your family.
Today is a holiday that is not very popular with me since my mother passed away twelve years ago. I’m not sure if it’s the holiday that causes me to miss her as it is the season.
My mother was an avid gardener. She loved planting flowers and other plants in her yard. When I was around 7 years old or so, Mom planted a vegetable garden behind the house. It was pretty tasty to eat the vegetables she had grown. While I haven’t taken on her interest in growing vegetables, I have gotten into planting flowers. I have to laugh, as there hasn’t been a season since her passing that I haven’t wanted to call her for advice.
Recently, I had an opportunity to sit in a meeting to hear a lady from Canada discuss her life with Charcot-Marie-Tooth CMT). She discussed having quite a few challenges that were quite a bit like what I have dealt with over the years. Something she said reminded me of my mother’s love for me. My mother never hesitated to let me know she loved me. As a young man, that wasn’t exactly what I wanted to hear back then. However, as I look back and think about it, her expressions of love often helped me to deal with the headaches of CMT. I will never know how much she really knew about it since at the time, there wasn’t much written and we certainly did not have access to what was.
So love your mom. Hug your mom. Enjoy your mom as much as you possibly can. Happy Mother’s Day!