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......
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!!
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