This Post is to You Mom....

Mom and Michael on his birthday.


Mom and me....oh I was a little fatty!


My favorite picture of Mom and me!

21 long years its been.

I understand now, so much that I didn't while I was a young "know it all."

We would make great partners today, you and I. If you could only see what I do for a living today, I know you would be proud. I remember years and years ago, when I was a teen, and walked out into the garage. You had tables set up, with all of our "stuff" on it. "What's going on?" I asked you. You told me you were having a garage sale. I was horrified! (Garage sales were not commonplace then.) How could you let the whole world know that we need money so bad you are selling our stuff? Smart a** teenager is what I was. Now, I shop approx 100 garage sales, estate sales, and auctions a week, looking for lovelies for my website and auctions. I wish you were here to say "I told you so!"

I am so very sorry, I lost you when I was too young, too caught up in my own worries to really get to know you. If I could do it all again, I would be proud to shop the sales with you mom, and even have our own sale.

I would love to sit and have coffee and chat. Go shopping. Oh mom, you could really teach me a thing or two about gardening, I struggle with it so. You had the magic touch when it came to gardening, just like everything else. I look back now, it seems everything you did was perfect. At least in my eyes it was. I just wish I realized it then. I am so sorry. I see women complain about their mothers "driving them crazy." I want to scream at them…how I wish you were here to drive me crazy…to see my boys grow up into responsible, handsome young men.

We were struggling when you and dad were raising our family…yet, you never let us do without. We had the most wonderful Christmases…the most wonderful birthdays. You were at our school plays, you yelled at the umpires when they made a bad call at our softball games. When I was about to be a new mother, you were at my door every Saturday with new maternity clothes you made me. You helped me decorate my first apartment. You did handstands to make my babies laugh when they were sick and crying. You taught me to sew, embroider, crochet, knit, cook, clean and love….I just didn't realize it then. I realize it know. I owe you so very much, and since I didn't tell you then, I'm telling you now...right here for all the world to see.

I know you are in heaven for you are an Angel. I hope to see you there someday, we have so very much to catch up on. Just when I began to appreciate you, I lost you.

I miss you terribly, now more than ever and more each and every year that passes.

I never said it enough so I'm saying it now....I love you Mom!

Happy Mother's Day!

And to all my blogger friends, if your mother drives you crazy, please, appreciate her and put up with it...for someday she will no longer be here to drive you crazy.