I Love You Mom

I miss my mother every day.

She's been gone 15 years.  

Every time I hear the song, "Stardust", my eyes well with tears.  It was her favorite.  She was from Indiana.  Hoagy Carmichael, composer of "Stardust" and many other great standards was also from Indiana.  

My mother loved with an open hand.  She didn't judge me.  She supported me.  I did alot of dumb stuff as a teenager and twenty-something and she forgave me without condemning me in the first place.  I am sure she was dismayed by a number of my activities but she didn't show it.  She understood.

Here's a really fine recording of Hoagy Carmichael playing what became one of the most recorded songs in the 20th century.   

or my favorite rendition below.

Happy Mother's Day Mom.  

Happy Mother's Day

Japonica

Today is Mother's Day. I will get up, make breakfast for my MIL and husband. At 2pm, we shall go to a lovely old 19th century hotel for a sumptuous brunch.  My older son is preparing to travel to Costa Rica. He's just finished another year in college. My younger son is away this weekend so I will not see him. It's just my husband, MIL and I.

I miss my mother. She died in 1997. She would be 95 now and I don't think that would please her. She never wanted to live that long. But I miss her terribly; her wisdom, her patience, her kindness, her acceptance. I am not as good or patient or kind as she was but she did teach me acceptance and love and, for my children, I have that in abundance.