Early Thoughts of Mother's Day

Soon, it will be Mother's Day again and I can't help think of it. Actually, I have been for awhile. No, I am not saddened by such a day. Such thoughts do though come to many, I am sure. I see it as a celebration of a Mother's love. Truly a gift from one's mother to child, which is returned forever after, in some way. At least, that is how it has existed always for me. I am blessed as I always known a loving family.

Since the first Mother's Day celebration after my mother had passed away, I've always gone out and got something for her garden. One year it was garden stepping stones, another year it was a hanging bird house. Of course, flowers to plant in her garden also. There have been different things I've done since her passing that has brought a sense of peace and acceptance in the whole grieving process and of course, the fact that my sister and I have talked much about things now. I do believe it was this blog that helped that to happen. Through our writings.

I've always felt in my heart that one could never truly know the deepest of a mother's love, unless one was a mother. To have loved a child inside one's own heart is what allows to know a mother's love and it's depth. I suppose this very belief is what brings my thoughts on Mother's Day, early this year. Because, Noah was born.

I watch my youngest daughter with her one child and I see the love in her eyes for him. I watch it in her every movement; her every word spoken to him. I had never thought she would have a child and in my own heart I always felt that she would never know the truest love of all; the love that only a mother could feel. I know, without a doubt, she knows that feeling now, for it is clear.

So, this Mother's Day, it will be again, in it's own way, very special this year. I will celebrate with my daughters and grandchildren. And in the day, i will think also of my Mother and I will celebrate the day with her also, in my heart, as always. I do not grieve this day, nor do I dread it. I look foward to it because it is the day which we, those of us who love in our hearts as we do, feel united in a way that only those who have given in such a way, will understand and feel.