Sunday, May 11, 2008

Full Circle Mother's Day

I have always had many mixed thoughts and emotions about Mother’s Day. I would say that this “holiday”, more than any other, brings on a variety of feelings to most women depending on what season of life you happen to be in. While currently being thrust into a season of my life that I did not expect for a few more years, I am pondering Motherhood quite deeply these days.

Since today I cannot be with most of my loved ones, whether they be far or whether they be in the Spirit World, I decided to decorate myself with reminders of them. Today I wear my mother’s beautiful ruby and diamond heart ring, and a tiny Navajo turquoise and sterling silver ring that my dear grandmother gave to me. On my wrist I wear a beaded crystal and silver bracelet that my daughter made, and my Eagle Scout mother pin on my shirt. And, even though I am with my dear husband today, I wear some lovely diamond stud earrings that he gave me for an anniversary a few years ago. These simple yet dear items envelope me in memories and warm thoughts of past years and precious moments gone by.

During the long wait for children to arrive to us, I skipped many a Sacrament Meeting on Mother’s Day. Even though I knew I would hear lovely talks focusing on “all women” being Mothers, I just couldn’t take it. When my children were little and I was feeling overwhelmed and tired, I didn’t skip the meeting, but endured hearing about all the wonderful mothers in the room and felt that I did not measure up to any of them. Today, definitely a little older and hopefully slightly wiser, I appreciated the words of the youth speaker, a mother of adult children, a young father, and of our dear bishop. Their words touched my heart and lifted me – is that because of my “season”?

My mom used to tell me that” what goes around comes around”. Today seemed like a “full circle” day in my life.








11 comments:

  1. Happy Mother's Day. It was nice to see you today, if only for a moment. You are great example for many of us.

    I loved all the pictures.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Happy Mother's Day! It was so great seeing you and Richard last week. You are such great examples to us. We love you! XOXOXO

    ReplyDelete
  3. thankyou for your beautiful post.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Thanks, girls! You are dears. I bet you especially loved those 80s and 90s hairdos, huh?

    ReplyDelete
  5. Happy Mother's Day! For the record, I've always thought you were a wonderful mom - a mother whom other mothers measured themselves against.

    You know, when I think about YW's and all, I can't remember one lesson that you taught. I just remember that I felt like you loved us all. You treated us all as your daughters. I think that makes you one of the best moms of all!

    ReplyDelete
  6. Love the post and love seeing the pictures of you with your babies and how they have grown. Hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day!

    ReplyDelete
  7. Thank you for your touching words. I love the wonderful flashback pictures!

    ReplyDelete
  8. Thank you for sharing your feelings about Mother's Day. I truly enjoyed your words and cute pictures, and my own heart was touched as I read of your journey.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Thanks, girls. I adore you all. You all lift my spirit!

    ReplyDelete
  10. Hi Deon! I loved looking at all your pictures. What you said is so true.

    ReplyDelete
  11. Great post...even if I am JUST getting to it. Love the pictures (and even the hairdo's ;) love ya!

    ReplyDelete

A little note from you? Thanks!