Mother’s Day is bitter sweet for me this year. I really wish I had been able to travel home to spend some time with my mom who is in a battle with stage 4 colon cancer. (It is also her birthday week.) I haven’t been home since last summer when she was first diagnosed and had surgery. It is a long and expensive journey to travel from Ohio to S. Florida with two kids.
My mom’s cancer is very real yet my day to day life with it is not. Since I am so far, it is easy to forget that she is waging a daily battle. This week was “treatment” week and it is horrible and painful for her. We were talking about my trying to come down this summer and I said that it may just be me due to the prices of plane tickets. She replied, “It’s ok for Eph because he will remember me, but not Lu. She is too little.” It broke my heart because she is right – Lu is too young and she would not remember.
For now we have plenty of time to skype and make phone calls. We have time for pictures and stories and we have time to make sure that little baby Lu bug knows her grandma and I will do everything in my power to make sure she doesn’t ever forget.
Here a couple of pictures of my mom with us. I am so thankful for her and all the good she has done in my life.
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| Winter 2010 |
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| Summer 2010 |
Until the end I have only my prayers and faith in God’s mercy and healing to keep me strong. He says, “‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. ‘Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. (Jer 29:11-12)
{{hugs}} to you. I can’t imagine how hard yesterday was. Bitter Sweet, indeed.
Big Hugs being sent to you (((HUGS)))