Happy Mother's Day

I found this picture on www.promtedtowrite.com. When I saw it, I called my 89-year-old mom who lives in Shanghai China.  “Happy Mother’s Day!” I cheerfully exclaimed after mom first answered the phone.  “Oh …“ her hesitation told me that she didn’t even know it was Mother’s Day. But she quickly and perfectly replied “Same to you!”  I look at this picture again with teary eyes … I am blessed to still have a mom to talk with on Mother’s Day. My mom laughs like this with her moon-shaped eyes when she has a good time; she carries a little purse just like this when she is out somewhere, and sometimes walked with a cane too. But! She would never wear a skirt like this because elderly lady in China is not supposed to show her legs :) 

 

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This picture was taken when I visited mom in Shanghai this past March.  I hopped all over her but still didn’t feel close enough to her.  I lost my dad over a year ago.  I want so much to hold my mom in my arms for as long as she is alive.  She wasn’t the most appreciative young mom when her three children were little, especially to the middle daughter like me.  Mom tried to apologize when we were looking through some old albums of our childhood pictures.  She said, “I didn't know you were the best of the three until now. Sometime when you are old you begin to realize what you have already lost in life,” she said,  choked up. I put my arms around her and whispered in her ear “I love you mommy!”  She put her head back and laughed with her mouth half open, like the lady in the picture above. Then she shouted in the air “I am so blessed!"

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What a special picture for Mother’s Day. 

Three ladies from three generations are sharing a bundle of love. Like my daughter, Jenny, said in the Mother’s Day card she sent me: “I am who I am because of you!  Thank you for a lifetime of love!”  

Mom: do you hear that?

Happy Mother’s Day!

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