When the moments become memories. Remembering Mom.
August 4, 2019
The most beautiful woman I’ve ever known. Her battle with breast cancer started in 2007. This photo was at my youngest brothers wedding after her mastectomy. Look at that smile. Look at that radiant face. If you knew my mom you could not help but fall in love with her. She had the sweetest, kindest, albeit stubborn spirit ever. She was gullible and funny, innocent and smart. Always surrounded by family, lifetime friendships and friends who became family. Moms life was hard from the moment she became a mother herself and very soon lost her own mother. Yet she never complained. She didn’t complain about her life struggles. She just lived every day one day at a time. She took delight in the little things and spent most of her life caring for others. After 10 years her cancer returned to her bones and we moved her back home to family. We were so grateful for the care she received and extension of her life to be surrounded by family and reconnected with friends. Two weeks ago riding home from my sons engagement party she started crying and said, “so I’m with you when you take your first breath, and you are with me when I take my last”. How prophetic. Wednesday she told my sister n law, and later my daughter and myself that she had died, saw Jesus and he said she could stay as long as she wanted. Just yesterday she told that same sister n law that she was going this weekend. I held her hand to the very end. At about 4:20 today she saw Jesus again. I love you mom always and forever and I will see you again very soon. Love, Berta
