What's It For?

Well, I started a post this afternoon, but even before then I had a bunch of sentimental thoughts when I took a walk this a.m. I was thinking about the women that don't get to celebrate Mother's Day or the ladies who have lost their moms already and are sad on a day like today, and then that made me feel sad and melancholy, and I was mentally wishing happiness to those people known and unknown in my life. I wondered what it would be like to wake on a day like today, to see mothers with newborns being strolled, to wake up and miss your own mother terribly and I felt sad for those who were feeling sad today. I think it should be a day for everyone, mothered, unmothered, mothering, unmothering to just experience the knowledge that there either is or was a special person in your life at one point, maybe she's not here anymore, maybe there are some relationships that need to be mended, maybe she wasn't the best mother, or the greatest caregiver, but there was a person out there that chose to either give you life, or give you the opportunity to be loved by a family who needed you, and that we should all be thankful for that one person who took us in our arms when we were teeny tiny and unaware and kept us fed and clothed and loved and safe.

And that's what we should be thinking of on a day like today.

So, I guess I am saying Happy Mother's Day to all those people who have brought the people that I know into my life, and I hope you took the time today to acknowledge a special woman in your life, whether it be your sister, you mother, your aunt, a cousin, your grandmother, a great-aunt, a friend.

I'm not sure how many Mother's Days in my life that I've not been able to talk to my mother but I'm thinking that where she is right now, she may have access to the internet, and surely she is checking in with Manic Mom. So, mom, I love you very much and thank you for the life you gave me. Without you, I am literally nothing.