Mother’s Day Will Be Bittersweet
REPOSTING FROM 2012
Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
- today at 50, I’ve been a mother for almost 20 years
- my grandmother was 50 when I was born, she took me & my sis under her wing at the age of 57 and lived to be 98
- Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
- the parent of a 3 month preemie weighed a mere 2.5 lbs, not sure if he would live or die
- my God is Awesome
- i look in the mirror and see my mother
- bore but did not raise me
- died before I really got to know her
- feared I would have to care for her in her old age
- grandmother said in order to live a long life you have to treat everybody right and pray
- Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
- not a friend but a fierce protector and provider
- mother never saw her grandsons
- a mother of 2 black males – RIP Trayvon
- in the store – keep your hands out of your pockets or they think you are stealing
- don’t lower your eyes
- know your history – never forget where you came from
- work hard
- no fear
- believe and achieve
- no drinking drugs or wild and crazy women
- pray
- bless your food
- be grateful
- study hard
- eat your food
- don’t eat too much candy
- Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
- don’t curse, fight, drink or do drugs
- wash and dry your clothes, sew cook and clean – I am raising some woman’s husband
- slow down you are driving too fast
- look in your rear view mirror
- keep your eyes straight ahead
- at 98 I held her hand as she transitioned, my guardian angel, my protector, teacher, minister and enforcer
- Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
- you got an “F”!
- stop crying
- open up
- you’ll feel better
- didn’t i tell you
- now why did you do that?
- wait for your brother
- are you listening to me?
- what did you say!
- I love you
- here, try this
- be nice
- save your money
- get a job
- go outside and play
- you have to work hard
- leave him alone
- say cheese
- come here
- sit down
- are you crazy
- what did you do?
- buried my father
- never knew my paternal grandparents
- i had a brother
- my lil sis is gone
- i’ll never be an aunt
- Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
- don’t spit that out
- i said,let’s go
- stop it
- Gloria was killed
- do your homework
- turn off that tv
- dinner!
- have a good day
- God bless you
- how was school today?
- change your clothes
- clean your room
- Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
- get up!
- make your bed
- breakfast!
- take out the trash
- stop it!
- working hard until he graduates from college
- remembering the fear of his first day on the bus, bigger fear, first day driving alone
- emergency room visits
- months and months in the hospital
- surgeries, feeding tubes, iv’s, central lines, rsv, nicu, picu
- what did i do to deserve this
- God why?
- teach me how to swim
- can’t breast feed
- crying all the time
- will this ever end?
- fell off the bike
- pregnant again…fear
- water broke…uh oh
- never got a maternity leave
- slow down
- barium swallows, mri’s
- mcdonald’s ball pit
- Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
- pediasure, pedylyte, nebulizer, syringe, pulse ox, nurses
- pick that up
- put that back
- don’t play with that
- leave it alone
- boy don’t make me come and get you
- i’m an orphan-no mother
- Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
- ieps, department of disabilities, nurses and kids, special ed classes, mainstreaming
- go sit down!
- come here
- where you goin?
- i’ll put the ashes in the coffin with mama
- Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
Happy Mother’s Day to you!
Thank you – enjoy NYC – be safe!
Happy Mother’s day! Love the post. God bless.xxx
Thank you, it was a beautiful day spent with my sons!
Wow! This was really touching! Good luck!
Thank you, life is good.
Reblogged this on Fashion and Fun after Fifty and commented:
Reposting from Mother’s Day 2012
Have a great Mother’s Day!! Cheers~ 😀
What a lovely and, as you wrote, bittersweet post, Antoinette. Love this advice from your grandma: “In order to live a long life you have to treat everybody right and pray.” Thanks for visiting me earlier in the week. I always enjoy returning the visit and reading through your blog. Blessings!
Than you my dear – I hope your day was fun and blessed!
Enjoy your Mother’s Day my friend.