Happy Mother's Day

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” 

Abraham Lincoln

One of the benefits of this time I've spent at home is the opportunity to work on projects I've been meaning to do since I retired almost seven years ago. I haven't gotten to the toughest projects, like cleaning out my closets, but I have gotten a good handle on organizing decades of photographs. I started with the travel pictures and then yesterday I went through most of the family photographs. My goal was to find this picture and any other pictures of my mother and me. I was happy to locate this picture, taken for either Mother's Day 1952 or for my second birthday that summer. Sadly, there were very few other pictures of the two of us, but I was gladly to find several other pictures that  I will be putting together for a framed collage. 

Not a day goes by that I don't think of my mother. She died in 1990, but her presence is always with me. She's been in my thoughts even more often during the last few months. At moments when I'm troubled, I think what would my mother do? She wasn't especially sympathetic to complaining or the idea of boredom. In this time she'd be cooking, baking -- she was a fabulous baker and never saw a recipe that looked too difficult. She would be reading, knitting and talking to friends and family on the phone daily. I know she would have enjoyed streaming movies and television shows and learned to use Zoom as well. I can hear her advising me, her often too impatient daughter, to take advantage of the time. She wouldn't have minimized the illness and job losses, but her advice to me would be to use these precious days well. Of course, she would be right, as usual.  

As always, I say thank you to my mother and wish all of Buttercupland, near and far, a very happy and healthy Mother's Day. Enjoy this precious day. We will only be given May 10, 2020 once and that once is now.  

As ever, thanks for visiting and take good care. Much love, today and every day!