“For the last 35 years, my mother kept the truth. Like an archaeologist, I had unearthed a hidden secret.”
- Love What Matters
- Grief
- Loss of Parent
“For the last 35 years, my mother kept the truth. Like an archaeologist, I had unearthed a hidden secret.”
“Finding out I was pregnant was an initial shock. I had vowed I would never have children. How could I mother children if I didn’t have a mother example to rely on? After the initial shock, I became ecstatic about the possibilities – until I realized I had a 50-50 chance of having a daughter!”
“Five years, no calls. All those missed moments your brain doesn’t know how to translate.”
“I never realized that a mother is not interchangeable; you cannot just change a known mother with an unknown one.”
“In April of 2014, my son arrived. He became my WHY. My purpose and reason for committing to being healthy. I knew this time was different. It wasn’t like all of the other times because this reason was greater than life. It was life.”
“The day after Mother’s Day, my brother called at 3:30 a.m. ‘Momma has BEEN shot.’ I know without a shadow of a doubt my mom she sent my son to save me the second she got to heaven. And that is exactly what he’s been doing since he took his first breath on this Earth.”
“No matter how long you’ve known that final goodbye was coming, you’ll never be ready.”
“‘She wants to hang out with me like every day.’ That’s the last sentence I said before the phone call that changed my life, and broke my heart.”
“Some days I just dial her number to see ‘Calling Mom’ on my phone.”
“I was given the highest gift.”