Reply #101: Mothers' Day was the last time I saw Mom [View All]

[LiberalEsto]

It was 1975, and she was on dialysis for kidney failure. I drove home from college for the weekend to see her. I gave her a card and a gift and some violets and lilies-of-the-valley that I'd picked for her.

Two weeks later, she was gone.

I have had a hard time with Mothers' Day ever since then. Having nobody to buy a card for, and so on.

My two daughters have often forgotten Mothers' Day over the years, although the older one at age 26 is getting more thoughtful. She and her boyfriend took me and Dave out to dinner last night, and she gave me a card.

The younger one called this afternoon (I was asleep - fighting a cold) to wish me a happy Mothers' Day. She told my husband that she was spending the day sticking close to her boyfriend, whose mother died on Mothers' Day when he was 13.