My mom has always looked and acted much younger than she is.
In fact, it is unbelievably easy to forget that she is seventy-six. Her
attitude and heart are clearly still somewhere in their thirties…maybe
forties...and she looks at least twenty years younger than her chronological
age. I took this photo a year ago, on Mother’s Day. After our celebrations were
over and I was home looking at all the photos on my computer, this photo of her
hand reminded me, she is in her seventies.
I am so lucky that I have my mom. I don’t
know what I would do without her.
There were other memories that came flooding back when I saw
this photo. I used to sit on my mother’s lap and play with her hands. Specifically, I would hold a finger from each
of her hands and click the fingernails together. I don’t know why I did this, I
just remember that I felt safe in her arms, and somehow doing this was
comforting. I always wanted to grow up and have long nails like my mother (I
don’t, by the way). I also remember that
her hands and fingers seemed so big compared to mine. This memory must be from
when I was quite small because her hands are tiny compared to mine now! I think
it’s interesting that something that seems so minor, clicking my mother’s
fingernails together, is really such an
important memory; and that this photo strikes such an emotional chord in
me.
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matching socks -- from just a few weeks ago! |
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at the fair last summer |
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at grandma's last summer |
Beautiful post!! Happy Mama's Day!! :)
ReplyDeleteAh absolutely precious memories. I still miss my mom every day even after 31 years. She was taken way to early. Happy mothers day :D
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