Our Dear Amy Just Lost Her Mom

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A few minutes ago I received an email from Amy. Her Mom just passed away from

pneumonia complications.

If you would like to send her a heartfelt note this is her email address:

 

AKFral

 

or you may post in the group. She's been a member since the group first started

and feels like we are family to her, she's cooked and baked plenty of our

recipes and shared good laughs and information too.

I know your encourging words will make her feel better.

Thanks everyone,

Donna

[Guest guest]

Dear Amy......

I am so sorry to hear about the loss of your precious mother. I lost my own

mom 25 years ago when she was only 58 years old from lung cancer. I know how

badly you are hurting right now.....and, I wish I could say that it will be all

better in no time, but it probably won't be. I was very depressed for two

years, even though my daily life as a wife, and mother of 5 (at the time)

continued on. The pain has lessened over the years but rarely does anything

momentous happen in my life or the lives of any of my children or grandchildren,

that I don't think about reaching for the telephone to call my mom. Oh, I

needed her so very much when my 21 year old granddaughter,

Brittany, was killed on December 5th of 2008 but I knew that my mom would be

cradling our precious Brittany, whom she never got to meet on earth, in her arms

in heaven.

 

My mom was my rock and I miss her every single day. BUT, I know how much she

loved me and I know she would want me to move forward, do the best I can as a

person, a wife, a mother and a grandmother and to be as happy as I can be.

 

I want you to remember one thing.....no matter how many years you live before

you go to join your mother in heaven, she will never die as long as YOU remember

her, as long as YOU love her, as long as YOU live by the lessons she taught you

as you were growing up. She will live as long as anyone she knew, loved and

touched, live.

 

One of the lessons I think of frequently that my mom taught me when I was a 4

year old learning to color.....she taught me, not to stay in the lines although

I learned that too.....she taught me to finish what I started by telling me to

finish coloring the picture I was working on before I went on to the next

picture. Now, isn't that funny that age 62, I remember that lesson so well?

And, it is but one of the lessons I have brought with me from my mother's knee

and thank God for her. She helped to make not only my life but the lives of all

seven of my children so much better by her wisdom. Even though all of my

children didn't even get a chance to know my mom, two were born after she passed

away and one was only 9 months old when she passed away, ALL of my children KNOW

my mother. I always talk about her AND I always tell them how proud she would

be of them if she were still here and how much she loved them.

 

When I grind coffee beans each morning for my one cup of coffee, when I SMELL

that fresh coffee, I absolutely FEEL my mother standing behind me with her arms

wrapped around me. She was a wonderful, loving, caring, kind, special person

and I am so lucky to have been her only daughter.

 

You hang in there, Amy......your mother IS still with you and will always be in

your heart.

 

Nancy Curtis

Price, Texas