MAY 12, 2010
Mother’s Day weekend was more difficult this year for one of our Girls (which one is not the focus), she used text messages to tell me about holding back tears during lunch as her two friends talked about plans for their moms. She was pleased that she didn’t cry during lunch, in front of her friends. The Saturday before Mother’s Day is difficult to muster the energy to purchase flowers and cards, I usually try not to add this to the girls’ stress but two of us bought flowers at 9:30 pm as the Day was tomorrow.
Sunday we wished other mothers at church a Happy Mother’s Day and had a fun brunch with my Mom. We discussed two families that we are close with who were experiencing their first Mother’s Day without a mother, we prayed for a peace in their lives on this Day. Then the girls and I went to visit Kath, we greeted the staff, especially the mothers and found Kath in a wheelchair looking beautiful. The girls like to lie on her bed and have me move Kathie close so they can hold her hand while they watch the television. We read our cards to her and held up the flowers we be bought the night before, then each of us kissed her cheek, whispered in her ear and said our good-byes
The next day, our daughter cried during lunch, she was embarrassed at school and texted me with the painful message. The pain of our child tears at my heart. A school friend had noticed her from a distance, he consoled her the next day. He has known our family, as a classmate, from his elementary school days and said to her, “Our family thought of you Sunday and we said a prayer for your family,” as he put his hand on her back.
Blessings to our Mother’s who are home and away from us and peace to you also,
Dave
Sunday we wished other mothers at church a Happy Mother’s Day and had a fun brunch with my Mom. We discussed two families that we are close with who were experiencing their first Mother’s Day without a mother, we prayed for a peace in their lives on this Day. Then the girls and I went to visit Kath, we greeted the staff, especially the mothers and found Kath in a wheelchair looking beautiful. The girls like to lie on her bed and have me move Kathie close so they can hold her hand while they watch the television. We read our cards to her and held up the flowers we be bought the night before, then each of us kissed her cheek, whispered in her ear and said our good-byes
The next day, our daughter cried during lunch, she was embarrassed at school and texted me with the painful message. The pain of our child tears at my heart. A school friend had noticed her from a distance, he consoled her the next day. He has known our family, as a classmate, from his elementary school days and said to her, “Our family thought of you Sunday and we said a prayer for your family,” as he put his hand on her back.
Blessings to our Mother’s who are home and away from us and peace to you also,
Dave
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