Selling a house is combined with the good and the bad. The good would be all of the memories that are stored where you live and the bad is going through everything and sorting out what to keep and what not keep.
Somehow keeping all of this stuff also helps to keep everyone alive, especially my parents who have passed on, getting rid of their birth certificates and old love letters is very difficult. Even though I know I can’t keep carrying them around in boxes up in the attic – letters that I, sadly, have never made enough time to sit in the corner and read throughly.
I guess, like most mothers, including my own, I probably have kept every kindergarten handprint and handmade clothespin Christmas ornament everyone of my children has ever made.
I just now had quite a chuckle when I looked at the Mother’s Day card my young son Lee made for me. It must’ve been during the PAC man craze because he says he loves me and I’m the best Pac Mom there is.
Inside there was a sweet little poem the future Grammy winning songwriter composed.
Mom you’re great
Mom your true
Mom I will always love you
Your son
Lee
That probably was one of his first compositions that necessarily was not meant to be a song. Plenty others about truck drivers moving down the road and elementary school crushes started when he was around seven, but this might be his very first and last serious attempt at rhyme for his mother.
I have to say though I was a little mystified when I noticed the drawing of a space ship at the bottom of his card.
My son was born in 1969 on the morning the USA landed on the moon, so I am hoping the reference to the rocket ship blasting through space is just that and not a subliminal message that he wanted to send me to the moon!
Our children are the best reasons to live a long life. Don’t you just love them in spite of rockets sending you into space. I think this card is a keeper.
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A most endearing and priceless treasure , the child and his creative mind at work …! Loved your caption sparking a crazy TV memory and of course the ’69 real deal ! No , little guys dont want moms on the moon… who would fix the pancakes and drive them to sport practice but ‘tho they sometimes dont want to be seen hugging and kissing their mothers the love is deep … Yes…. live long ….so many reasons Mom… ♡ Happy Mother’s Day to you Sandra.
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Jan, your comment touched my heart in all the right places. I am so grateful in my life’s journey, before I bid farewell, part of the way, they were chosen to walk with me. Yes…I hope that road ahead will be rather long. Thank you again for your thoughtful perspective.
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