Anonymous
Happy Mother's Day. This is the first one without you and it's so evident that things have changed. Yesterday I bought impatiens for the garden and that did not feel the same as last year. I forgot to mention during your memorial luncheon the story of the kelly green jumper which I think of often. You had stayed up all night using the fabric from a green skirt and changed it into a high-waisted, double box-pleated jumper for me to wear to school. (You had also purchased an off-white Danskin turtleneck and matching tights) to complete "the look" and for that one day I looked good! I knew you did not have the money in your budget for of all things Danskin tights and turtleneck, but you made it perfectly clear the next morning that you had "stayed up all night to make that jumper" and I had "better like it". That was your way Mother-- to do something special, but then add one of those comments afterwords. (By the way, Casey is still eating flowers and Kaley is still misbehaving.) To quote a passage from a book called Motherless Daughters, "her presence influenced who I was, and absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay." Mother's Day will never be the same, but never forgotten. Love, DeeDee##imported-begin##Deidre LaBelle##imported-end##