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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

    My mother in high school

    My grandmother~mother~father~friend

    My sister ~ RIP


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

    My mother in high school

    My grandmother~mother~father~friend

    My sister ~ RIP