For all the Moms in my life...and the one who's not any more

[thatcrazycajun]

Lest I become bogged down in self-pity and maudlin moroseness today, as is all too easy for me these last 13 years since my own mother died of cancer at 56 and her mother followed her in death a year later, I want to remember the wonderful mothers who are still in my life today and wish all of them a happy Mother's Day.

An especially happy one to joyeuse13, who is enjoying (one hopes) her very first Mother's Day after giving birth to little Zachary a few weeks ago. And to my sisters-in-law, Susan and Darla Leger, who are mothers twice and four times over respectively. And my stepmother Lucy, who lost one of her sons to untimely death years ago. And all the mothers on my friends list, including but by no means limited to acelightning, katrinb, quadrivium, tigerbright, ailsaek, pocketnaomi, suecochran, spiritdancer, gimmeahand, persis, weirdsister, telynor, dsthomas, ericavdg, ladyat (who has also lost a child), maya_a, folkmew, osewalrus' wife Becky, evawhitley, dunkelpig, mseuphrates (whose pics of her adorable little ballerina today seem rather fitting for the day somehow), jrittenhouse's wife Susan, daisy_knotwise ...and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my pointy little head.

Here's hoping your families give you every joy you can imagine wanting this day. And if you're a mother and reading this and I've omitted you from the above list, please let me know and it will be rectified tout suite.

Comments

[gingicat]

This is why I don't list people - I always forget someone. ;)

D'OH!

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Of course! I am so sorry...I did not mean to slight you. Fixed.

[ladyqkat.livejournal.com]

I thank you for the honor, but the only "children" I have are four-footed and furred.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

I must have confused things again. Apologies.

[ladyqkat.livejournal.com]

No need to apologize. As I said, I am honored to be considered to be a mother. One of my SCA daughters might even concur with you, and perhaps my niece and nephews now that their mother is gone.

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

I'll pass your thanks along...

[acelightning.livejournal.com]