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• Mother's Day... - May. 11, 2006
I thought I'd take a break from my normal posts and write about Mother's Day. Cat, my current renter, had a contest not to long ago where she had her readers write about Mother's Day.
It brought back memories.
I wrote a poem when I was in elementry school for a mother's day contest. My mom was so proud of it. Proud that she was that to me, proud that I showed my love for her in that way. I won't forget the happy tears in her eyes when she typed it up for me (oh yes, pre-us-having-a-computer).
Fast forward to today. I'm 24 and my parents and I had a huge falling out back in June 2005. I was browsing through Halmark looking for a card and wanted to ask the lady (tongue firmly implanted in my left cheek) where's the "I'm mad about what's going on but I still love you" cards?
I refrained.
Honestly though, it was heart-wrenching to read all those flowery, gushy, sentimental cards and think about sending them. It felt wrong, hypocritical to pick one of those, but on the other hand, it felt evil to not send something that said I love you.
Finally I picked out a Winnie-the-Pooh card (her favorite) that had a sweet "here's a hug from me to you" kind of message.
Gosh, who thought card shopping could be so hard.
I really want things to be better with my parents. I miss them. For most of my life they were the center of my world. They were my best friends and I was rarely out of their immediate presence. My parents homeschooled me (and I'm eternally grateful), loved me and cared for me for 17 years at home. When I went to college they cried buckets (not surprising).
Yet a couple amazing turns made all of that change. It's a long story and they aren't here to defend themselves, so I won't post it all.
Thank you for sharing your heart. I know it is hard.
The person that I have had a conflict with lately(and been blogging about) is my mother.
A lot of selfishness on my part caused our conflict.
I hope and pray that this mother day's brings healing to your relationship.
Take care of you Miss Tabitha,
God bless,
Linda
Hi Tabz, Misterteacher here from Learn Me Good. I am truly sorry to hear that you're going through a rough time with your parents. But I hope you can have a happy Mother's Day nonetheless.
Also, I agree with you that card shopping sucks! I HATE shopping for a card. I don't really care for the sappy sweet ones, and most of the ones that are supposed to be funny just aren't at all. I usually wind up grabbing whichever one has the biggest monkey or the most fart jokes on it. Of course, that's when it's a friend's birthday, not Mother's Day...
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