Open Letter to My Mom
10 years ago I did what I did every Mother’s Day – I drove to your house SOOOO excited to give you your Mother’s Day gifts. I had no idea it would be the last Mother’s Day that I could ever do that.
Ten years.
Johnna gave me beautiful flowers today. Sometimes she does that on random days for no special reason. She is the human version of sunshine in my life, everyday.
Today the weather has shifted from sun and rain to cloudy, sunny, and rainy seemingly all at once and then back through that cycle over and over.
The rain and clouds are the loss of you and my sorrow over your absence, never more present than on this day each year. The sunshine trying to battle it and shine on me is Johnna, who so often says and does and looks in ways that I catch a glimpse of you. And today in her I saw me too- in her words and excitement and giving her all to make her mom feel happy and appreciated.
Happy Heavenly Mother’s Day to my mom, and thank you to my daughter for always being the sunshine in my life.
…And as the day comes to a close- the rain is gone and only some clouds remain.
Happy Mother’s Day.
