My mom when she was in High School becoming the Worthy Advisor in The International Order of the Rainbow for Girls.
My Mom, My Grandma, my little sisters - Kirstie and Sandy,
My Mom, My Grandma, my little sisters - Kirstie and Sandy, My Great Grandpa Deakin and me!
"Love your mother"
"Love those around you!"
"Love the Lord"
On February 5 my mother would have been 66. I miss her so much. There are so many questions I have for her...so many triumphs I wish I could share. I've been on my own for the majority of my life. There have been so many things in my life I wish I could have shared with my mother. She was a wonderful person. She taught me everything I needed to know by the time I was only 14 years old.
I look at Jessica a realize how nice a life she has. By the time I was her age, my parents had already divorced, remarried each other and divorced again. I had a step mom and had moved probably close to 25 times.
At 14 my sister and I washed, cooked, and cleaned. We packed the lunches and ironed my dad's work shirts. I still had my homework and other activities to do.
I'm so grateful my mom prepared me, but I miss her sooooo much!!!
What a great tribute to your mom. In all these years of knowing you, I guess I never really knew much about your mom and I never realized homw much you had to go through and the responsibility you had to take on at such a young age. That is probably why you are such a capable person today, because you learned to take charge and do things when you were young. I can't imagine losing my mom that young. wow....
ReplyDeleteI was so lucky to have Mark's mom as my mother-in-law. No one can take the place of a mother, but she was a mother to me in every way while she was still alive. She came for Jessica, Devon and Marissa's birth (She was in surgery to remove the cancer on the day Robert was born or she would have been there then). She help me with the kids when we moved to England. She's amazing! I miss her too!
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