A Few Of FR's Finest....Every Day....05-10, 05-11-03.....Week In Review

Billie and dansangel

[dixie sass]

Morning everyone, I hear the traditional sounds of springtime Saturdays - Lawnmowers - and smell the scent of fresh cut grass!

[LadyX]

What a wonderful and loving essay, Luis-in-my-native-Florida..:))

Please come here more often, your words always such a delightful treat for us.....

[JustAmy]

"And, I think it was JustAmy's BD too"

Hey ....... no way am I having two birthdays a year!!!
LadyX had a birthday last week.

LadyX ...... she's giving away your birthday!! Is she related to Meekie?

[nicmarlo]

LadyX had a birthday last week. LadyX ...... she's giving away your birthday!! Is she related to Meekie?

No. Meekie steals people and things....I just give them away, lol.

Okay, so it was LadyX's BD....I was very close! : )

[nicmarlo]

The "devil" made me do it!

Yeah, right! : )

[LadyX]

Meekie, you and I share not having our mothers physically present to honor. This is related for all those in this category - - -

* When Mom Is An Angel *

Some of you already know the last time I saw my mother was when she and Daddy placed my two little boys (then 6 & 7) and me (27) on a plane to join my husband in South Dakota.

We managed to get to Atlanta; a two-day shutdown blizzard in Chicago lifted so I could get through there, although we missed our connection out of St. Paul-Minneapolis. Waited all day in the airport there for a flight at 4 p.m. to Rapid City, landing on a snowy Christmas Eve.

The next year was idyllic, roaming the beautiful Rocky Mountains; eventful, with the birth of our daughter September 30th; and dramatic as two weeks later the Cuban Missile Crisis dominated our Strategic Air Command life.

Ha! That was just a prelude for orders to go to Fairbanks, Alaska, departing the day after Christmas to go through Canada and the Alaska Highway to our destination.

There of course was no way to get to Florida to visit and then to the top of the world, but my mother and I wrote often until January of 1964 when she was stricken with an aneurysm, resulting in her being paralyzed, blind and unable to speak.

She passed away on my second son's tenth birthday in July of 1965 when I was 31, and I'd never gotten to hear her voice again.
She never saw my daughter.

Fast Forward through Gypsy Woman's Life to 1972 when we were out of the service and back in Florida.
Moving so often and renting mostly, I never hung photographs on walls, hauling boxes of them around. Jennifer was then 10, and thus, I realized, hadn't seen pictures of my parents.

One day, going through a box, I showed her some.
The moment I held up my mother's picture, she exclaimed, "But Mom! That's the lady who came to me last night when I was crying about Striker!!"

We had had to find a home for our beloved dog (Collie-Cocker Spaniel mix acquired when she was one), when we left the service in 1969.

She related when she was going to sleep, she was thinking of him amd crying, and suddenly "The Lady" appeared at the foot of her bed and comforted her!

She was adamant that the lady in the picture was the one who had been there and comforted her.
I add that she never had been a fanciful child with imaginary playmates - was a grounded military brat in her early years who rolled with the punches.

Thus am I sure Mom prompted me to get out the pictures to have 'confirmation' of what happened - and am certain of her continued presence, joined a few years later by my Dad.

I can tell you, too, living in this small South Carolina town where my grandfather and grandmother (her parents) lived in the 1920's - he the minister of a church right off the Center Circle by the County Courthouse - I can often 'feel' the prayers they offered here for their children and grandchildren!!

We are surrounded by the love of those gone ahead - - - and in giving love and kindness to others, honor their memories, and love grows - - -

Giving thanks from a grateful heart,

LadyX

Please give your living mothers a hug for me...

[LadyX]

Hi, sass - may I offer you a glass of lemonade to go with this Saturday in Spring?..:))

[LadyX]

"LadyX ...... she's giving away your birthday!! Is she related to Meekie?"

Dunno, but Meekie - my Dad's birthday was the 16th, as was my husband's mother's. Made it easy to remember.

Mine was the 7th, and every year I get Mother's Day, too, the same week!

[Luis Gonzalez]

You just gave me chills, and blurred my vision.

Thank you so much for sharing.

[jwfiv]

Hey, Doll...)...found this screen cap of a dream I had once long ago.

Thanks for your thought re: Mother's Day.

[nicmarlo]

My mother is also not here to honor, having passed away long ago, at the age of 41. Of course, I often think of her, but last Mother's Day, for whatever reason, her absence hit me especially hard. Thanks for sharing "When Mom is an Angel," LadyX.

[LadyX]

Thank you - - -

I was so blessed to have her as long as I did. For those of you who still have yours, do spend time plumbing the depths of yours - ask about their memories and experiences, for when they are gone, you cannot.

For example, thinking there were years ahead, knew she had taught school after college, but never asked the name of the town! Never asked where my grandmother taught school in the three years before she married my grandfather!

I now live in South Carolina, and would love to go where they had been The Teacher.....

All those stories with gaps - all the things they might like to revisit with you, were you to ask - and you'd have more stories to pass to your children and grandchildren - - lost - - ASK her now to relate them.

Better yet, video tape or at least voice record them.

[LadyX]

Hey, Guy...:))

Love the dreamy landscape....and offer this one for you, Johnny Mac...

[MeekOneGOP]

LadyX ...... she's giving away your birthday!! Is she related to Meekie?

Re #23-24: LOL !

[MeekOneGOP]

Please give your living mothers a hug for me...

Likewise, here.

Wow. What an awesome story about your daughter and your Mother. Thanks for sharing that.

[Aeronaut]

Thank you for sharing your story Lady. I too look forward to seing my mom again "on the other side." She left us in 1976 at age 60.

[GailA]

[MeekOneGOP]

My folks would have celebrated their 50th anniversary had Mom lived for another ~3.5 months. They had looked forward to that since their 25th. I got them a silver platter that I had engraved for that one. I still remember around the time of their 25th Mom wondering what I was going to get them for their 50th, lol!

[JustAmy]

Thanks for sharing your Mother's Day memories with us.
This is the first Mother's Day without my Mother. She died last year 2 days before her 89th birthday. So many things have been reminding me of her lately.



Happy Mother's Day, Mother. We miss you, I'll never forget our trip to Texas and Oklahoma.

[dutchess]

I'm sure that tomorrow will be bittersweet Amy. Thanks for posting the picture of your mother.