Monday, April 30, 2012

"Welcome Home, Mom"

Monday, April 30, 2012



Today.......

Mom Finished The Good, Long Fight.....

She Kept Consistently Steady on Course.....

And She Never Once Lost Her Faith.


Today, my Mom breathed her last breath on this dreadful place called Earth.

She was so tired.....
She had worked overtime in this job called Life.

Today.....
My Mom entered this nifty place called

Heaven.


Where
No more arthritic knees...
No more shaking from Parkinsons....
No more confusion from Dementia....
And no more Tears.......

Are Allowed To Enter

Welcome Home
Mom

(Don't start bowling without me, ok?)

Friday, April 27, 2012

A Day With Mom.......

Friday, April 27, 2012


Yesterday I had the priviledge........no; the HONOR, to sit by my Mom's bedside the entire day.  Did she know it was me sitting there?  Most likely not.......but I knew and felt such a comfort........a sort of peace being there next to her.

It was hard to leave.....

And the little pink daisy hairclip in her hair looked so pretty......




Saturday, April 21, 2012

My Mom

Saturday, April 21, 2012


I have such a "need" to tell you about my sweet Mom.......as she enters the final weeks of her life.

Many of you know my mom Dorothy......you might have called her Dot....or maybe Mrs. Calloway.  You may have gone to church with her or maybe you knew her through me......You might be her sister-in-law or niece or nephew or grandchild.

I never met anyone who didn't love Mom.  

As I selfishly sit here wishing for more time with her; regretting missed opportunities; missed chances to tell her just how very much I loved her....all the while knowing she is the "lucky" one as she will soon be meeting her heavenly Father.....preparing to be called to her permanent, beautiful, over-the-moon, out-of-this-world Heavenly home, I wanted to revisit my Mothers Day blog with you......



Happy Mothers Day!

Mother's Day is so bittersweet to me........SWEET cause I was blessed with the sweetest Mom of them all.....BITTER cause I know I won't have her with me "forever".....As the years go by faster and faster, I see my  time with her getting shorter and shorter and it simply breaks my heart.   

For those of you whose time has already ended with your Mom, my heart aches for you right now and these tears that I'm crying as I type this right now are for you.  And for those of you who maybe don't understand your Mom; maybe are angry with her; maybe feel she wasn't the mom you "deserved"........please remember she was the Mom that God gave you and He gave her to YOU for a reason.  I'm sure there were many moments my Mom felt she didn't get the daughter she deserved when she was having to chase me around the bed to spank me or the millions of other things I did to disappoint her.

But today, I want to thank my beautiful Mom for a few things that time can never take away....
* For all the yearly Mother-Daughter Trip memories we made together.  From Hawaii to the Bahamas; from Asheville, NC to San Antonio; from Oklahoma City to Hot Springs, AR; not to mention Branson, MO to Florida......we have seen and experienced so much together.  We have learned your stomach shouldn't ever take a cruise again; and we have learned what our maximum amount of time together should be.  These trips will be forever etched in my memory, even when I'm old and can't remember who I am.....

* For working at that hot Sears warehouse during our school age years so we could attend church school.......even though I only excelled in "talking, goofing off and laughing"......this was NOT your fault!

*  For driving us to school in downtown Dallas on Central Expressway and never "pulling the car over RIGHT NOW" as you often threatened......

* For forgetting to tell Dad when he got home as you promised to do when we were extra bad.......

* For the love of bowling.....I never was able to beat you at bowling....DOGGONIT!


* For being the "Monster" at Chuck's and my house at Halloween  in Dallas and scaring all the little kids....You were AWESOME!

Thanks Mom, for being YOU!!