“HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY”
………………………..My Mother was a beauty…..both outside and in….Her friends called her “carrot top” because of her beautiful wavy red hair. Her given name was Lorita, but everyone called her Edith. She had beautiful soulful dark brown eyes……I like to think I have my Mother’s eyes………Sometimes it’s hard to think that our mothers had full lives before we were born. They too were children….grew up…were teenagers….became adults…..and had many experiences….had friends, and boyfriends. They worked and played……They went away in the summers with their girlfriends……and who knows what went on….though I have seen pictures, and heard “some” stories!…… They went to dances and parties, and celebrated all of the Holidays…..all before we were born…but, then we did come along….and they became Mothers…….My mother married my father what in those days was considered late in life. She was 28. I asked her why she waited to get married……”I was having too much fun!” she said…… I’m my Mother’s baby, and yes I was definitely a mommy’s boy. My two older brothers are six and eight years older then me. There was another baby between my middle brother and me, but it wasn’t to be…..Then I arrived!…………..My Mother and I were always very close…..You could say in my early years I hung onto her apron strings…..She taught me how to drive a car……..When I moved into the big city at 18 I was the last of her brood…..I know she was very sad to see me go……..My Mother passed away nine years ago at the age of ninety six…..so we did have many years together, but they are never enough…………There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think of her………………………………………………………………..
……………………..Happy Mother’s Day Mom……………….I’ll Love you forever…………………………………….
