Thank You

Thank you for phone calls and flowers and visits and cards. 
Thank you for rose bushes, pansies and tulips.
Thanks for making me feel loved. 
Thank you for a delicious supper and for good company shared. 

Happy Mother's Day to me!

Happy Mother's Day 2011

Happy Mother’s Day 2011

I have ten healthy, bright and lovable grandchildren, ranging in age from two to sixteen years.  They each have wonderful, nurturing, loving mothers.  I am fortunate.  I have two amazing daughters and three amazing step-daughters…each one is a creative, capable, talented, strong woman.

Happy Mother’s Day, with much love…to M & M & P & J & J.

 

You each mother your children lovingly and well, in your own special and unique ways.  Enjoy this day!

I hope when my granddaughters and grandsons grow to be adults, they will look back at this time and recognize what opportune childhoods they have had.

Happy Mother’s Day to my mother, who raised five of us…with much struggle, heartache and joy.  And who continues, through the generations of children, grandchildren and great-grand-children, to support and nurture us all.  I love you.

Happy Mother’s Day!

The image is mine.

Letting Go

Letting Go

If you want to love a child

to raise her, you must listen and

be able to hear all that she says,

called truth.

If you want to help a child

to guide him, you must nurture and

know that he will have his own wisdom,

called life.

If you want to parent

to be a mom, you must be patient

with all that you learn from each other,

called love.

Child grows up, guidance not

needed, relationships change.

What’s left are the memories,

and love shining though

lighting the new pathways--

of letting go, letting go.

Writing / words are mine.  Poem form is patterned on:  “#17. Push boat with a flow of water” by Kim Goldberg, from her book called Ride Backwards on Dragon (Pig Squash Press, 2007).   Learn more about Kim Goldberg at http://liuhebafagirl.wordpress.com