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7 responses to “Open Thread Update: Best Mother’s Day”

1. This year my daughter and son had to maneuver and make adjustments due to my many COVID 19 concerns , ,yet support me in new and different ways. They did and continue to do so. Their ongoing enhancements (large and small ) in my everyday living situations encouraged me to use technology and improve my technology skills. This encouragement has resulted in my increased knowledge , less frustration , and more ways for me to have fun. My improved competency with technology: A stretched Mother’s Day gift, that just keeps on giving.

   Reply to Ann Armstrong

2. Out of tragedy comes love and joy. After losing my younger daughter to breast cancer, her older sister took her niece and nephew to raise. My granddaughter is now in graduate school and her brother is working. To take two young children and raise them with the love and passion as if they were yours takes a very special person and that woman is my daughter. She has done such an incredible job,pretty much at the expense of her time and energy is so remarkable. It doesn’t surprise me, because that is who she is………a beautiful, smart, loving woman who makes me proud everyday. She IS my Mother’s Day gift! Thank you , Barbara

   Reply to Rita Crespi

3. Flowers and other gestures each year are lovely, but fleeting…Though I thought the timing was awkward (and it certainly was tricky for my extended family – including grown stepkids and their families), celebrating my son’s graduation from college on a misty Mother’s Daymorning in upstate New York was a gift I’ll never forget.

   Reply to Barbara

4. ONE of the best Mother’s Day gifts happened one year when my son was on the road, working on a television production. He sent flowers and said “Sorry I couldn’t be there.” My daughter-in-law invited me to join her, her sisters and her mom at brunch. I walked in, sat down and asked who the empty chair was for. That’s when my son walked in! He somehow got a little time off to fly home. They were all in on the secret.

   Reply to Kathleen Doheny

5. I was ecstatic when my son from Los Angeles told me he was traveling to Seattle this weekend. As a bonus, His older brother from Olympia, WA came also! We haven’t seen each other in so long…. since COVID! What a blessing!

   Reply to Linda

6. The best gift I get every year for Mother’s Day is spending time with both my daughters together. Whether it’s brunch or just a walk on the beach, time is the most precious gift we have.

   Reply to Mary Lawton

   1. The best Mother’s Day gift I got was a poem written by my son, honoring the character and personality traits that I had that made him love and respect me. It’s still on my refrigerator door all these years later, along with another beautiful poem expressing his feelings and fears, when he left home and got his own apartment.

      Reply to Inez West